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error message obtained when plotting survival curves (error not previously obtained)

3 messages · Bob Green, Thomas Lumley

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Hello,

I now receive an error message when obtaining a survival plot, which 
was not previously received with the same code. I recently updated 
all my packages. It does not seem to be a peculiarity of my data as I 
receive the error using data available in R. A plot is produced but I 
am uncertain regarding the error message.



 > library(surv2sample)
 > data(gastric)
 > fit <- survfit(Surv(time, event) ~ treatment, data = gastric)
Error in get(x, envir = ns, inherits = FALSE) :
   variable "survfit.km" was not found
 > #Default plot:
 > plot(fit)


regards

Bob Green
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On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Bob Green wrote:

            
You don't show what packages you have loaded.  My guess would be that you are calling Design::survfit rather than survival::survfit, and the problem is due to the incompatibility between the most recent versions of Design and survival. Frank Harrell and the folks at Vanderbilt are working on a new version of Design.

       -thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle
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Hello Thomas,

I had been using both survival & design packages. I have just tested 
both packages and can report that the error only appears after 
loading Design. If I just run survival there is no error.

regards

Bob
At 06:08 PM 1/04/2009, Thomas Lumley wrote: