[R] Fw: na.rm problem

[Uwe Ligges]

sonal at deepfoo.com wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i am a new member.
> 
> i am using R in finding correlation between two variables of unequal length.
> 
> when i use
> 
> cor(x,y,na.rm=T,use="complete")
> 
> where x has observations from 1928 to 2006 & y has observations from 1950 to
> 2006. I used na.rm=T to use the "complete observations".  So missing values
> should be handled by casewise deletion. But it gives me error
> 
> Error in cor(close, close1, na.rm = T, use = "complete") : 
>         unused argument(s) (na.rm ...)
> 
> Please help me with this as I am new to R.


See ?cor. It does not have an na.rm argument. Just use:

   cor(x, y, use = "complete")

Uwe Ligges


> Thanks,
> Sonal
> 
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