[R] wilcoxon test: error not enough (finite) observations

[Laurent Gautier]

Dear R users,


Sorry for the invonvenience. The problem turned out to be that the given
parameters where not exactly what the functions was waiting for x and y.
Wrapping as.numeric() around the given arguments solved it.

I however suggest a test could be added early in this function so a more
explicit error message could be shown to the user.



Cheers,





Laurent








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Dear R users,


Using the wilcoxon test in the library ctest, I have the following error
message.




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 > a  <-  dataf[1, indexControls]
> b  <-  dataf[1, indexTreated]
> a
     V2    V3  V4  V5
1 458.2 200.5 232 205
> b
     V6  V7    V8
1 308.2 537 971.9
> wilcox.test(a,b)
Error in wilcox.test(a, b) : not enough (finite) x observations


This puzzles me since the following works....


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> wilcox.test(c(1,2,3,4),c(2.3,3.4,4.5))

  Wilcoxon rank sum test

data:  c(1, 2, 3, 4) and c(2.3, 3.4, 4.5)
W = 3, p-value = 0.4
alternative hypothesis: true mu is not equal to 0


I must be wrong somewhere, but I just can find where !



Thanks any kind of hint/help.





Laurent
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