[R] vcov method for 'coxph' objects

[Peter Dalgaard]

"Vito Muggeo" <vito.muggeo at giustizia.it> writes:

> Dear all,
> The help file for the generic function vcov states
> 
> "Classes with methods for this function include: 'lm', 'glm', 'nls', 'lme',
> 'gls', 'coxph' and 'survreg' (the last two in package 'survival')."
> 
> Since, I am not able to use vcov.coxph(), I am wondering whether I am
> missing something (as I suspect..)


It's a bug in the NAMESPACE file for survival:

> survival:::vcov.coxph(o)
         x
x 1.660006

or

> vcov.coxph <- survival:::vcov.coxph
> vcov(o)
         x
x 1.660006


So the only thing you're missing is example(coxph) in your example.
Without that, test1 is not found.

> > o<- coxph( Surv(time, status) ~ x + strata(sex), test1)  #example from
> ?coxph
> > vcov(o)  #of course I could use o$var
> Error in vcov(o) : no applicable method for "vcov"

It has been reported before, and I think it is fixed in the current
patch version.

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