[R] Regarding pp.plot(){CircStats}

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Ravi Malayambakkam-n wrote:

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> I have a table containing two columns and some 600 rows.  The first column
> is a time series in the sense contains the amount of time the model that i
> am studying stays in a particular state(ie sojourn time).

That is a vector of times, not a time series, unless the observations are
ordered in (calendar) time.  If this is a time series, statistical methods
that assume independence are probably inappropriate.

> I
> extract the contents of the table using read.table. and extract the
> first column from the table as follows.
> 	ft <-read.table(<filename>)
> 	firstcol <-ft[1].
> When I pass firstcol as a parameter to pp.plot(firstcol) I get the
> following error :
> Error in if (abs(term) < acc) flag <- "false" :
>          missing value where logical needed
>
> Can anyone tell me where the mistake is.

Well, you haven't given us anything to reproduce this, not even a
traceback().  R does come with quite a few debugging facilities to help
you find the error.

However, the first thing to do is to check if you passed the right
arguments.  For pp.plot, this is a vector of angular measurements in
radians.  That does not match your description!

Please send a reproducible example to the maintainers of CircStats.  At
the least they have been insufficiently defensive against incorrect
inputs, and there may be more to it that that.  Please also tell them
the version of the package you used, and the result of R.version.

-- 
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