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How to resolve the following error: (list) object cannot be coerced to type 'double'

5 messages · Jason Love, R. Michael Weylandt, Bert Gunter +1 more

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On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Jason Love <jason.love1492 at gmail.com> wrote:
Untested (because I'm still without respectable internet after a move)
I believe rcorr would rather have a matrix than a data.frame(), which
is what read.csv produces, so try

Var <- as.matrix(Var)

or

rcorr(as.matrix(Var), type = "pearson")
This suggests that the input to rcorr is being converted to a double,
which isn't a valid storage.mode change for a list (= data frame).

Cheers,
M
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Have you read (relevant sections) of "An Introduction to R"  to gain
some basic understanding of how R works? If not, please do so before
further posting.

Briefly, Var is a data frame and rcorr wants a matrix.

-- Bert
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Jason Love <jason.love1492 at gmail.com> wrote:

  
    
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Hello,

The input must be a matrix, not a list (or its special case data.frame).

Var <- read.table(text="
   D.Prime    T.statistics
1    1.7234e-01     4.926800
2    1.4399e-01     2.892000
3    1.4626e-01     2.642800
4    3.5147e-02     1.112400
5    5.8957e-02     2.723700
", header=TRUE)

# library(Hmisc)
rc <- rcorr(as.matrix(Var), type="pearson")
# from recommended package stats
ct <- cor.test(Var$D.Prime, Var$T.statistics, method = "pearson")

rc$P
                D.Prime T.statistics
D.Prime             NA    0.1101842
T.statistics 0.1101842           NA

ct$p.value
[1] 0.1101842

To the op: you should say which library you are using. Even if Hmisc is 
a very popular one.

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas


Em 12-09-2012 16:10, R. Michael Weylandt escreveu: