Ah yes, nice, I had noticed the swapped words in other situations, it will
definitely help me to tell users about sample size issues... :)

Bests,
Renaud


On 29 April 2013 12:15, Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:

> On 25.04.2013 13:29, Renaud Gaujoux wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> in R-3.0 I get the following error when calling lsfit with more
>> observations than variables, which seems to come from an error in the
>> formatting of the error message (note that this was not happening in
>> 2.15.3):
>>
>>  nobs <- 5; nvar <- 6; lsfit(matrix(runif(nobs*nvar), ncol=nvar),
>>>
>> runif(nobs), intercept=FALSE)
>> Error in sprintf(ngettext(nry, "%d response", "%d responses"), ", ",
>> ngettext(ncx,  :
>>    invalid format '%d'; use format %s for character objects
>>
>>> traceback()
>>>
>> 3: sprintf(ngettext(nry, "%d response", "%d responses"), ", ",
>> ngettext(ncx,
>>         "but only %d variable", "but only %d variables"), nry, ncx)
>> 2: stop(sprintf(ngettext(nry, "%d response", "%d responses"), ", ",
>>         ngettext(ncx, "but only %d variable", "but only %d variables"),
>>         nry, ncx), domain = NA)
>> 1: lsfit(matrix(runif(nobs * nvar), ncol = nvar), runif(nobs), intercept =
>> FALSE)
>>
>
> Thanks, fixed in R-patched and R-devel (plus the wording which was
> inappropriate for more than 10 years, at least).
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>
>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Bests,
>> Renaud
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