[R] pb with package mix

[Prof Brian Ripley]

See ?prelim.mix which says

        x: data matrix containing missing values. The rows of x

and you gave a data *frame*.

It is not prelim.mix that `does not work'.

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 Stephanie.Tomczak at eleves.polytech-lille.fr wrote:

> hello,
>
> We've got a problem with the mix package in order to impute the missing data.
> After importing the data, the prelim function does not work (only the stlouis
> data works).
>
> We have done :
>
>> library(mix)
>> Manq <- read.table("C:/.../file.txt")
>> attach(Manq)
>> save(Manq,file="C:/../R/rw2001/library/mix/data/Manq.rda")
>> data(Manq)

Don't do this -- it's a package, not a play area.

>> Manq
> V1 V2 V3 V4
> 1  1  1  1  1
> 2  1  1  3  6
> 3  1  2  6  2
> ...
> ...
> 52  2  7  6  2
>
>> Essaimanq <-prelim.mix(Manq,4)
>  Error in as.integer.default(list(V1 = c(1, 1,  1,  1,  1,  1, 1,  1,  1,  1,:
>     (list) object cannot be coerced to integer
>
> thank you


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