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problem using MASS corresp and mca functions

2 messages · Alexandre Fayolle, Uwe Ligges

Alexandre Fayolle
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Hello,

I'm an absolute beginner with R and neophite in data analysis, so please bear
with me if I ask stupid question. 

I'm trying to do a correspondence analysis using R and MASS corresp function,
but I get an error message which I'm unable to interpret:
Error in svd(t(t(x1 * Dr) * Dc)) : error  306  in dsvdc

Similarly, I get another error if I try to use mca:
Error in (rep(1, n)) %*% G : non-conformable arguments

I'm a bit stuck there, with the impression that I'm missing something
fundamental. 

The data I'm using is a csv file extracted from an web server logfile. The first
lines are:
visitor;date;url;fromurl;agent
61.133.139.118;05/Nov/2000:04:02:08;/img/main_window.gif;http://www.logilab.org/sshots.html;Teleport
61.133.139.118;05/Nov/2000:04:02:16;/contact.html;http://www.logilab.org/dev.html;Teleport
<snip>

Any help or comment is welcome.

Alexandre Fayolle
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Uwe Ligges
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Alexandre Fayolle wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Try 
  read.table(filename, sep=";", header=TRUE)
instead of data(weblog). I guess the file is not read in correctly (?).

            

      
      
      
    

        
Works for me, so I think it is the way you read in the data. Have you
checked, if the data.frame weblog looks OK in R?
[Assuming you are running R-1.1.1 and the latest MASS package]

            

      
      
      
    

        
Uwe Ligges
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