Hi,
I can't seem to figure out why this gives me different answers. Probably
something obvious, but I thought they would be the same.
This is an minimal example from the help page of cor() :
> ## swM := "swiss" with 3 "missing"s :
> swM <- swiss
> colnames(swM) <- abbreviate(colnames(swiss), min=6)
> swM[1,2] <- swM[7,3] <- swM[25,5] <- NA # create 3 "missing"
> cor(swM, use = "na.or.complete")
Frtlty Agrclt Exmntn Eductn Cathlc Infn.M
Frtlty 1.0000000 0.37821953 -0.6548306 -0.67421581 0.4772298 0.38781500
Agrclt 0.3782195 1.00000000 -0.7127078 -0.64337782 0.4014837 -0.07168223
Exmntn -0.6548306 -0.71270778 1.0000000 0.69776906 -0.6079436 -0.10710047
Eductn -0.6742158 -0.64337782 0.6977691 1.00000000 -0.1701445 -0.08343279
Cathlc 0.4772298 0.40148365 -0.6079436 -0.17014449 1.0000000 0.17221594
Infn.M 0.3878150 -0.07168223 -0.1071005 -0.08343279 0.1722159 1.00000000
> # why isn't this the same?
> cor(swM[,c(1:2)], use = "na.or.complete")
Frtlty Agrclt
Frtlty 1.0000000 0.3920289
Agrclt 0.3920289 1.0000000
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