[R] predict.mvr error message

[Stewart T Chang]

Well, I figured it out on my own.  It turns out, even though my test set
of data appeared to be a matrix, it wasn't.  Adding "as.matrix" to the
front of the name of the data set solved the problem.  (Maybe there's some
alternative way of doing it, such as yours?)  Thanks for your suggestion.

Stewart



On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Liaw, Andy wrote:

> What version of R, what version of pls.pcr, and on what OS?  Have you
> checked whether your versions of software are up to date?  I get:
>
> > n <- 1350
> > p <- 180
> > y <- rnorm(n)
> > x <- matrix(sample(0:1, n*p, replace=TRUE), n, p)
> > fit <- mvr(x, y, method="SIMPLS", validat="none", ncomp=2)
> > xt <- matrix(sample(0:1, 312*p, replace=TRUE), 312, p)
> > yt <- predict(fit, xt)
>
>
> Andy
>
> > From: Stewart T Chang
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I've encountered an error message while using the pls.pcr package
> > that's left me scratching my head for a couple of hours, and
> > I thought I
> > might post it here in the hopes that someone else uses this package.
> > Using a data set of 1350 observations (each observation comprises 180
> > predictor variables and 1 output variable), I trained a model using
> > pls.pcr.  (Other details: ncomp=2,
> > method="SIMPLS",validation="none".  I
> > might also add that each predictor variable has a value of
> > either 0 or 1,
> > though the output variable is a real number.)
> > '
> > When I tried to use this model to make predictions (on 312 sets of 180
> > predictor variables), I received the following error:
> >
> > Error in X %*% object$training$B[, , index, drop = TRUE] :
> >         requires numeric matrix/vector arguments
> >
> > Normally I'd ask a friend of mine in Biostatistics here to
> > help me out,
> > but he's currently away!  Have any of you used pls.pcr and gotten this
> > kind of message?  Thanks!
> >
> > Stewart
> >
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