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Error in dimnames(phi) <- list(rn, dims) : length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent

7 messages · Yonas Yohannes, Jeff Newmiller, Jim Lemon +2 more

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Yonas Yohannes
# 
Dears,
I have presence and absence data set (8 rows and 33 columns) and when I
want to get out of the default two dimensions command using summary(ca(mydata,
nd=3)) the following error message displyed:

Error in dimnames(phi) <- list(rn, dims) :
  length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent

Please help! So many thanks in advance!
Kindly,
* <mail%3Ayonas at wku.edu.et>*
Jeff Newmiller
# 
You desperately need to study [1] and the Posting Guide mentioned at the bottom of this and every other message on this list.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example
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On May 17, 2015 7:31:08 AM PDT, Yonas Yohannes <yonas at wku.edu.et> wrote:
Jim Lemon
# 
Hi Yonas,
If this is the "ca" function from the package of the same name, it
looks to me as though your data set is only two dimensions and you are
requesting 3 dimensions in the output. Have you tried calling ca with
the default nd=NA?

Jim


On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Jeff Newmiller
<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
David L Carlson
# 
I think this is a bug in the current version of ca() in package ca. I am copying the package maintainer with this example:

# Reproducible example from manual page for ca():
Error in dimnames(phi) <- list(rn, dims) : 
  length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent
So the MASS version of correspondence analysis, corresp(), is able to extract three dimensions (actually up to 11) from "author". I am certain I have used ca() in the past and extracted more than two dimensions from similar tables. 

-------------------------------------
David L Carlson
Department of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77840-4352



-----Original Message-----
From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jim Lemon
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 7:31 PM
Cc: r-help mailing list
Subject: Re: [R] Error in dimnames(phi) <- list(rn, dims) : length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent

Hi Yonas,
If this is the "ca" function from the package of the same name, it
looks to me as though your data set is only two dimensions and you are
requesting 3 dimensions in the output. Have you tried calling ca with
the default nd=NA?

Jim


On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Jeff Newmiller
<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
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Oleg Nenadić
# 
David, Thanks for forwarding this to me.

Yonas, Please try updating your ca package to version 0.61 which fixes 
this issue. This is not the latest official CRAN version, so get it from 
R-forge via
 > update.packages("ca", repos = "http://r-forge.r-project.org")

All the best,
Oleg.


On 18/05/2015 16:27, David L Carlson wrote:> I think this is a bug in 
the current version of ca() in package ca. I am copying the package 
maintainer with this example:
 >
 > # Reproducible example from manual page for ca():
 >
 >> library(ca)
 >> data("author")
 >> author.ca <- ca(author) # No problem
 >> author.ca <- ca(author, nd=3)
 > Error in dimnames(phi) <- list(rn, dims) :
 >    length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent
 >> library(MASS)
 >> author.ca <- corresp(author, nf=3) # No problem
 >
 > So the MASS version of correspondence analysis, corresp(), is able to 
extract three dimensions (actually up to 11) from "author". I am certain 
I have used ca() in the past and extracted more than two dimensions from 
similar tables.
 >
 > -------------------------------------
 > David L Carlson
 > Department of Anthropology
 > Texas A&M University
 > College Station, TX 77840-4352
 >
 >
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jim Lemon
 > Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 7:31 PM
 > Cc: r-help mailing list
 > Subject: Re: [R] Error in dimnames(phi) <- list(rn, dims) : length of 
'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent
 >
 > Hi Yonas,
 > If this is the "ca" function from the package of the same name, it
 > looks to me as though your data set is only two dimensions and you are
 > requesting 3 dimensions in the output. Have you tried calling ca with
 > the default nd=NA?
 >
 > Jim
 >
 >
 > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Jeff Newmiller
> <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>> You desperately need to study [1] and the Posting Guide mentioned at 
the bottom of this and every other message on this list.
 >>
 >> [1] 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example
 >> 
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Playing
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 >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
 >>
>> On May 17, 2015 7:31:08 AM PDT, Yonas Yohannes <yonas at wku.edu.et> wrote:
>>> Dears,
 >>> I have presence and absence data set (8 rows and 33 columns) and when I
 >>> want to get out of the default two dimensions command using
 >>> summary(ca(mydata,
 >>> nd=3)) the following error message displyed:
 >>>
 >>> Error in dimnames(phi) <- list(rn, dims) :
 >>>   length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent
 >>>
 >>> Please help! So many thanks in advance!
 >>> Kindly,
 >>> * <mail%3Ayonas at wku.edu.et>*
 >>>
 >>>        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
 >>>
 >>> ______________________________________________
 >>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
 >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
 >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
 >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
 >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
 >>
 >> ______________________________________________
 >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
 >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
 >> PLEASE do read the posting guide 
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
 >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
 >
 > ______________________________________________
 > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
 > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
 > PLEASE do read the posting guide 
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
 >
Yonas Yohannes
# 
Dear Oleg,
Thank you so much for your advice! But I tried to update the packages and
check whether the problem is fixed. But I end up with the same error.
Error in dimnames(phi) <- list(rn, dims) :
  length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent

It seems to me that, what I got to update from R-forge is version 0.60 not
version 0.61. Please see below the script I got while updating the package:

trying URL 'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.1/ca_0.60.zip
'

Content type 'application/zip' length 98081 bytes (95 KB)

opened URL

downloaded 95 KB


Do you think version 0.60 is not fixing the problem?

Kindly,

Yonas


On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Oleg Nenadi? <onenadi at uni-goettingen.de>
wrote:

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Oleg Nenadić
    

    

      
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Dear Yonas,
It usually takes some time until a Windows binary version is available 
on R-Forge. It is version 0.61 you want here.

So, you can either install the source version using
 > install.packages("ca", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org", 
type="source")
or manually download and install the binary package from
https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=1859

Kind regards,
Oleg.

        
On 19.05.2015 08:23, Yonas Yohannes wrote:

        
> Dear Oleg,
 > Thank you so much for your advice! But I tried to update the packages
 > and check whether the problem is fixed. But I end up with the same error.
 > Error in dimnames(phi) <- list(rn, dims) :
 > length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent
 >
 > It seems to me that, what I got to update from R-forge is version 0.60
 > not version 0.61. Please see below the script I got while updating the
 > package:
 >
 > trying URL
 > 'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.1/ca_0.60.zip'
 >
 > Content type 'application/zip' length 98081 bytes (95 KB)
 >
 > opened URL
 >
 > downloaded 95 KB
 >
 >
 > Do you think version 0.60 is not fixing the problem?
 >
 > Kindly,
 >
 > Yonas
 >
 >
 >
 > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Oleg Nenadi? <onenadi at uni-goettingen.de

        
> <mailto:onenadi at uni-goettingen.de>> wrote:

        
>
 >     David, Thanks for forwarding this to me.
 >
 >     Yonas, Please try updating your ca package to version 0.61 which
 >     fixes this issue. This is not the latest official CRAN version, so
 >     get it from R-forge via
 >      > update.packages("ca", repos = "http://r-forge.r-project.org")
 >
 >     All the best,
 >     Oleg.
 >
 >
 >
 >     On 18/05/2015 16:27, David L Carlson wrote:> I think this is a bug
 >     in the current version of ca() in package ca. I am copying the
 >     package maintainer with this example:
 >      >
 >      > # Reproducible example from manual page for ca():
 >      >
 >      >> library(ca)
 >      >> data("author")
 >      >> author.ca <http://author.ca> <- ca(author) # No problem
 >      >> author.ca <http://author.ca> <- ca(author, nd=3)
 >      > Error in dimnames(phi) <- list(rn, dims) :
 >      > length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent
 >      >> library(MASS)
 >      >> author.ca <http://author.ca> <- corresp(author, nf=3) # No 
problem
 >      >
 >      > So the MASS version of correspondence analysis, corresp(), is
 >     able to extract three dimensions (actually up to 11) from "author".
 >     I am certain I have used ca() in the past and extracted more than
 >     two dimensions from similar tables.
 >      >
 >      > -------------------------------------
 >      > David L Carlson
 >      > Department of Anthropology
 >      > Texas A&M University
 >      > College Station, TX 77840-4352
 >      >
 >      >
 >      >
 >      > -----Original Message-----
 >      > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org
 >     <mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org>] On Behalf Of Jim Lemon
 >      > Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 7:31 PM
 >      > Cc: r-help mailing list
 >      > Subject: Re: [R] Error in dimnames(phi) <- list(rn, dims) :
 >     length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent
 >      >
 >      > Hi Yonas,
 >      > If this is the "ca" function from the package of the same name, it
 >      > looks to me as though your data set is only two dimensions and
 >     you are
 >      > requesting 3 dimensions in the output. Have you tried calling 
ca with
 >      > the default nd=NA?
 >      >
 >      > Jim
 >      >
 >      >
 >      > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Jeff Newmiller
 >      > <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us <mailto:jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>> 
wrote:
 >      >> You desperately need to study [1] and the Posting Guide
 >     mentioned at the bottom of this and every other message on this list.
 >      >>
 >      >> [1]
 > 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example
 >      >>
 > 
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 >      >> Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live...
 >      >> DCN:<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us <mailto:jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>>
 >     Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go...
 >      >> Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing
 >      >> Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with
 >      >> /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k
 >      >>
 > 
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 >      >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
 >      >>
 >      >> On May 17, 2015 7:31:08 AM PDT, Yonas Yohannes <yonas at wku.edu.et

        
>     <mailto:yonas at wku.edu.et>> wrote:

        
>      >>> Dears,
 >      >>> I have presence and absence data set (8 rows and 33 columns)
 >     and when I
 >      >>> want to get out of the default two dimensions command using
 >      >>> summary(ca(mydata,
 >      >>> nd=3)) the following error message displyed:
 >      >>>
 >      >>> Error in dimnames(phi) <- list(rn, dims) :
 >      >>> length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent
 >      >>>
 >      >>> Please help! So many thanks in advance!
 >      >>> Kindly,
 >      >>> * <mail%3Ayonas at wku.edu.et <mailto:mail%253Ayonas at wku.edu.et>>*
 >      >>>
 >      >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
 >      >>>
 >      >>> ______________________________________________
 >      >>> R-help at r-project.org <mailto:R-help at r-project.org> mailing list
 >     -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
 >      >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
 >      >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
 >      >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
 >      >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible 
code.
 >      >>
 >      >> ______________________________________________
 >      >> R-help at r-project.org <mailto:R-help at r-project.org> mailing list
 >     -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
 >      >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
 >      >> PLEASE do read the posting guide
 >     http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
 >      >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible 
code.
 >      >
 >      > ______________________________________________
 >      > R-help at r-project.org <mailto:R-help at r-project.org> mailing list
 >     -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
 >      > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
 >      > PLEASE do read the posting guide
 >     http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
 >      > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
 >      >
 >
 >