[R] factors and mca

[Peter Alspach]

Carlos

?mca states that mca works on a dataframe.  As you've written it

is.data.frame(de) returns FALSE

Try

de <- data.frame(d,e)  instead of  de <- factor(c(d,e))

HTH

Peter Alspach



> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Carlos
> Mauricio Cardeal Mendes
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 8:23 a.m.
> To: 'R-Help help'
> Subject: [R] factors and mca
>
> Hi ! Wonder if I have this code below:
>
> a <- c(1, 2, 3, 2, 1)
> b <- c(3, 2, 3, 1, 1)
> d <-as.factor(a)
> e <-as.factor(b)
> table(d,e)
> is.factor(a)
> is.factor(b)
> is.factor(d)
> is.factor(e)
> de <- factor(c(d,e))
> is.factor(de)
> require(MASS)
> mca(de)
>
> I'd like to perform a correspondence analysis, but I can't
> understand why the message error after mca.
>
> Aren't those (d and e) factors as is.factors shows ?
>
>  > Erro em mca(de) : all variables must be factors
>
> I'm running R 2.3.0 under windows XP
>
>
> Thank you !
> Mauricio
>
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