Error scan update to question

36: sodium <-> sodium, th16, NA
37: satfat <-> satfat, th17, NA
38: sem.model.KerryQ3 <- sem(model.KerryQ3, KerryQ3cov, 2123)
38: summary (sem.model.KerryQ3)

Hi,

The problem is that specify.model() is not terminating its input and 
so is reading R commands, see line 38. I have only looked at sem, 
but maybe a blank line will work.

Ken

On 16/05/2008, at 6:15 AM, David Kaplan wrote:

Hi all,

I was asked to provide a bit more information.  Here is the output 
to the problem.  Note that I changed the data format to 
tab-delimited and also used read.table, but to no avail.  The 
problem is exactly the same when I use .csv data and read.csv.  The 
program I'm using is John Fox's SEM program within R for Mac.   The 
2123 is the sample size and there are no missing data values, or 
any other peculiarities as far as I can see.  The data are clean.

 ## CFA for Kerry Data Set, Question 3
 ## load the sem package

 KerryQ3 <- read.table("~/Desktop/KerryQ3a.txt", header=TRUE)
 KerryQ3cov <- cov(KerryQ3)
 model.KerryQ3 <- specify.model()

1: f1 -> calcm, lam11, NA
2: f1 -> phytoc, lam21, NA    3: f1 -> soypro, lam31, NA
4: f1 -> antiox, lam41, NA
5: f1 -> fiber, lam51, NA
6: f1 -> vitmin, lam61, NA
7: f1 -> protn, lam71, NA
8: f1 -> monoft, lam81, NA
9: f1 -> omega3, lam91, NA
10: f2 -> chol, lam102, NA
11: f2 -> fat, lam112, NA
12: f2 -> sugar, lam122, NA
13: f2 -> calor, lam132, NA
14: f2 -> recarb, lam142, NA
15: f2 -> trnsft, lam152, NA
16: f2 -> sodium, lam162, NA
17: f2 -> satfat, lam172, NA
18: f1 <-> f1, NA, 1
19: f2 <-> f2, NA, 1
20: f1 <-> f2, ph21, NA
21: calcm <-> calcm, th1, NA
22: phytoc <-> phytoc, th2, NA
23: soypro <-> soypro, th3, NA
24: antiox <-> antiox, th4, NA
25: fiber <-> fiber, th5, NA
26: vitmin <-> vitmin, th6, NA
27: protn <-> protn, th7, NA
28: monoft <-> monoft, th8, NA
29: omega3 <-> omega3, th9, NA
30: chol <-> chol, th10, NA
31: fat <-> fat, th11, NA
32: sugar <-> sugar, th12, NA
33: calor <-> calor, th13, NA
34: recarb <-> recarb, th14, NA
35: trnsft <-> trnsft, th15, NA
36: sodium <-> sodium, th16, NA
37: satfat <-> satfat, th17, NA
38: sem.model.KerryQ3 <- sem(model.KerryQ3, KerryQ3cov, 2123)
38: summary (sem.model.KerryQ3)
Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  :
scan() expected 'a real', got '2123)'

 std.KerryQ3 <- standardized.coefficients(sem.model.KerryQ3)

Error in standardized.coefficients(sem.model.KerryQ3) :
object "sem.model.KerryQ3" not found

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