[R] Using permax with Data Frame Containing Missing Values

[Robert Gentleman]

There is currently no handling of NAs in permax. Your only simple
option is to drop those rows with NA's in them, or to perform some
sort of imputation.

I will mention it to the package's author, 
 Robert

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:47:05PM +0100, Brian Lane wrote:
> I'm new to this site so I hope this isn't too naive a problem. I'm trying 
> to use the permax function with a data frame containing gene expression 
> measurements taken from 79 microarray experiments with >3000 genes per 
> array. The data contains missing values and every time I use permax with 
> the data frame I get the error:
> 
> NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 1)
> 
> Could anyone suggest how I might get round this problem?
> 
> Regards,
> Brian Lane
> Dept of Haematology
> University of Liverpool
> 
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