[R] how to rectify t.test( ) error

[Peter Dalgaard]

"Jagarlamudi, Choudary" <choudary.jagar at swosu.edu> writes:

> Hi All,
>  
>  I get the following error when i perform a t.test.
>  
> studentt<-apply(tlr, 1, function(x) t.test(x[2:6], x[7:11],var.equal=TRUE)$p.value)
>  
> # tlr is a table of 11 columns and 22500 rows. I am not able to post tlr due to its size.
> 
> Error in if (stderr < 10 * .Machine$double.eps * max(abs(mx), abs(my))) stop("data are essentially constant") : 
>         missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
> In addition: Warning messages: 
> 1: argument is not numeric or logical: returning NA in: mean.default(x) 
> 2: argument is not numeric or logical: returning NA in: mean.default(y) 
>  
> Could someone kindly give me pointers regarding the error. This worked fine with 2 other data sets.

I would conjecture that your table is nonnumeric. What is mode(tlr)?
(-- or mode(as.matrix(tlr)) if tlr is a data frame).

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