[R] npmc function: 'x' must be atomic

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Patrick Drechsler wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble getting the function `npmc' working. I have a
> 2 column 30 row table called `mydata':
> 
> > npmc(mydata, df=2, alpha=0.05)
> Error in sort(unique.default(x), na.last = TRUE) : 
> 	`x' must be atomic
> > is.atomic(mydata)
> [1] TRUE
> 
> Is there anything I have overlooked? 

traceback()/dump.frames/debugger() to pinpoint the error?

Telling us where you got npmc from? (I suspect you mean the one in package 
npmc.)

Noticing that `x' is not the same name as `mydata'?

> Am I invoking the function correctly? I wasn't able to find any hints in
> the archives either.

I am sure that the hint to make use of R's debugging facilities is there 
hundreds of times.

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