[R] command in survival package

[Linda Lei]

Thank you guys. 
But I tried the commands and I still get:

> aml1<-aml[aml$group==1,]
> aml1
[1] time   status x     
<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
> esf.fit <- survfit(Surv(aml1$weeks,status) ~ 1)
Error in Surv(aml1$weeks, status) : Time variable is not numeric
In addition: Warning message:
is.na() applied to non-(list or vector) in: is.na(time)

which still looks confusing. Or are they should be applied in s-plus
instead of R?

Thanks a lot!
Linda


-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Schwartz [mailto:MSchwartz at mn.rr.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 4:49 PM
To: Thomas Lumley
Cc: Linda Lei; R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] command in survival package

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 15:27 -0800, Thomas Lumley wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Linda Lei wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a question about one command sentence when I follow the
example
> > in the book of "Survival analysis in S":
> >
> > > aml1<-aml[aml$group==1]
> 
> If this is really what the book says you should probably complain to
the 
> author.  However, if it says
>    aml1<-aml[aml$group==1,]
> then you show type that instead.
> 
> It is hard to be sure, because you don't say where the `aml' data set 
> comes from.  It can't be the one in the survival package as this
doesn't 
> have a variable called "group"
> 
> >
> > Thus, I couldn't keep going on the next command:
> >
> > esf.fit<-survfit(Surv(aml1,status)~1).
> >
> 
> This looks implausible as well. I would have expected something like
>    esf.fit<-survfit(Surv(time,status)~1, data=aml1)


Correct on both accounts Thomas. The text in the book on page 26 appears
as Linda posted.

However, there is an errata document here:

http://www.crcpress.com/e_products/downloads/download.asp?cat_no=C4088

which shows the corrected text as:

aml1 <- aml[aml$group==1,] # Maintained group only

esf.fit <- survfit(Surv(aml1$weeks,status) ~ 1)


HTH,

Marc Schwartz