Just as a clarification: I downloaded 'prostate.sav' from F. Harrell's website. For some reason
> data(prostate) Warning message: In data(prostate) : data set 'prostate' not found I don't have the prostate data set as is. -----Original Message----- From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 12:53 PM To: Bond, Stephen Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Hmisc describe error On Oct 1, 2012, at 9:33 AM, Bond, Stephen wrote: > Describe fails for me with a message similar to what was an issue in 2008 and > got fixed according to posts. > > R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30) > Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > ISBN 3-900051-07-0 > Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) > > # output truncated > >> options(chmhelp = FALSE, help_type = "text") >> .help.ESS <- help >> options(STERM='iESS', editor='gnuclient.exe') >> load('prostate.sav') >> library(rms) > Loading required package: Hmisc > Loading required package: survival > Loading required package: splines > Hmisc library by Frank E Harrell Jr > > Type library(help='Hmisc'), ?Overview, or ?Hmisc.Overview') > to see overall documentation. > > NOTE:Hmisc no longer redefines [.factor to drop unused levels when > subsetting. To get the old behavior of Hmisc type dropUnusedLevels(). > > > Attaching package: 'Hmisc' > > The following object(s) are masked from 'package:survival': > > untangle.specials > > The following object(s) are masked from 'package:base': > > format.pval, round.POSIXt, trunc.POSIXt, units > > > Attaching package: 'rms' > > The following object(s) are masked from 'package:survival': > > Surv > >> describe(prostate) > Error in format(dates(x)) : could not find function "dates" >> > Iget anerror when I use that code. Error in describe(prostate) : object 'prostate' not found And when I attempt loading it get: data(prostate) So you must have a different set of objects or packages loaded on your installation than I do. David Winsemius, MD Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
