Helen, You are asking for help with a function which is not part of R, and your question is nowhere nearly detailed enough to make it possible to replicate the error. However, if the function you are using is the one available in http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Fox-Companion/app-scripts.zip and my guess as to what commands you entered in order to produce the error is correct, then your problem is most likely that you are entering cov.names as a list instead of a character vector.
An example: you might be typing cov.names = list('age', 'gender', 'occupation') when you should be typing cov.names = c('age', 'gender', 'occupation') According to the documentation for the function I think you may be using, cov should be a list of vectors, while cov.names should be a character vector containing the names of each covariate. I hope this helps - if it doesn't, you might try posting a self-contained example (code) that we can try on our systems and that will provoke the same error. Bjarke Christensen. Helen Jenkins wrote: >The error message when I use list is: >" s.matrix(!is.na(new.data[, cov.names])) : > invalid subscript type 'list'" ______________________________________________ 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.