[Rd] bug in prcomp (PR#8994)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

The default method for prcomp does not have an na.action argument:

Usage:

      prcomp(x, ...)

      ## S3 method for class 'formula':
      prcomp(formula, data = NULL, subset, na.action, ...)

      ## Default S3 method:
      prcomp(x, retx = TRUE, center = TRUE, scale. = FALSE, tol = NULL, ...)

so this is as documented.  In general only formula-based interfaces do 
have subset and na.action.


On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, KjetilBrinchmannHalvorsen at gmail.com wrote:

> The following seems to be an bug in prcomp():
>
> > test <- ts( matrix( c(NA, 2:5, NA, 7:10), 5, 2))
> > test
> Time Series:
> Start = 1
> End = 5
> Frequency = 1
>   Series 1 Series 2
> 1       NA       NA
> 2        2        7
> 3        3        8
> 4        4        9
> 5        5       10
> > prcomp(test, scale.=TRUE, na.action=na.omit)
> Erro en svd(x, nu = 0) : infinite or missing values in 'x'
> > prcomp(na.omit(test), scale.=TRUE, na.action=na.omit)
> Standard deviations:
> [1] 1.414214e+00 3.726778e-17
>
> Rotation:
>                PC1        PC2
> Series 1 0.7071068 -0.7071068
> Series 2 0.7071068  0.7071068
> >
> note that
> > is.matrix(test)
> [1] TRUE
>
> This is R2.3.1 pre-compiled binary from CRAN on windows XP.
>
> > sessionInfo()
> Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"
> "datasets"  "base"
>
>
> Kjetil
>
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