Hmisc describe error
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:dwinsemius at comcast.net] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 12:53 PM To: Bond, Stephen Cc: r-help at 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