Hello, Oh Lord, yes, I had a function called "cat", with argument "j".
That was very dumb.
Renaming function cat resolved the problem. I had lived with this
problem too long---avoiding printing with cat altogether in this
program. Thanks to all-----Bill, Iva, Jim, Erin, Andrew for help!
On 10/13/2022 10:30 PM, Bill Dunlap wrote:
> Do you have another function called "cat" in scope? (with an argument
> called "j")? Before calling cat("...") call print(cat) and
> print(find("cat")).
>
> -Bill
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 12:35 AM Steven T. Yen <st...@ntu.edu.tw> wrote:
>
> I have had an issue with printing (with cat) in a subroutine for
> which I
> do not have a applicable example, but I am still hoping to get some
> help. In the following, the first block of code works fine.
>
> ...
>
> t<-abs(me)/se; p<-2*(1-pt(t,nrow(x)))
> sig<-my.sig.levels(p)
> out<-data.frame(round(cbind(me,se,t,p),digits)); out<-cbind(out,sig)
> rownames(out)<-names(me)
> colnames(out)<-c("est","se","t","p","sig")
> j<-grep(".one\\b",rownames(out))
> out<-out[-j,]
> return(out)
> }
>
> But as soon as I insert lines to print (cat) soething simple, it
> spits
> out message that appears to be nonsence (unrelated). Any idea. Please
> help. Thanks.
>
> t<-abs(me)/se; p<-2*(1-pt(t,nrow(x)))
> sig<-my.sig.levels(p)
> out<-data.frame(round(cbind(me,se,t,p),digits)); out<-cbind(out,sig)
> rownames(out)<-names(me)
> colnames(out)<-c("est","se","t","p","sig")
> cat("\nMarginal and Discrete Effects of Gen Ordered Logit / Probit
> Probabilities",
> "\n\nlogistic =",logistic)
> j<-grep(".one\\b",rownames(out))
> out<-out[-j,]
> return(out)
> }
>
> In this particular case, the error message was as follows:
>
> Error in cat("\nMarginal and Discrete Effects of Gen Ordered Logit /
> Probit Probabilities", :
> unused argument (logistic)
>
> I have printed this way in numerous routines without problem and
> do not
> see why this is happending.
>
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