Re: [R] e1071::skewness and psych::skew return NaN

2013-02-13 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, Just remembered, you can see how many values are zero, and since it's only one value, remove it and log the rest. sum(dat == 0) # 1 d2 <- dat[dat != 0] library(psych) skew(log(d2)) [1] 0.6089985 Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 13-02-2013 17:59, Rui Barradas escreveu: Hello, Tha

Re: [R] e1071::skewness and psych::skew return NaN

2013-02-13 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, That value means that some values of your data are negative or zero. A simple inspection shows that any(dat < 0) # FALSE any(dat == 0) # TRUE Solution: don't log your data Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 13-02-2013 16:55, Stephen Politzer-Ahles escreveu: Hello everyone, Does an

Re: [R] e1071::skewness and psych::skew return NaN

2013-02-13 Thread Stephen Politzer-Ahles
Hi everyone, Please disregard my last message, I found a 0 in the vector, which is what was causing problems with the log and reciprocal data. Best, Steve On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Stephen Politzer-Ahles wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Does anyone know what would cause the skewness() funct