[R] could not find function "Varcov" after upgrade of R?

[David Freedman]

I've had the same problem with predict.Design, and have sent an email to the
maintainer of the Design package at Vanderbilt University.  I wasn't even
able to run the examples given on the help page of predict.Design - I
received the same error about Varcov that you did.  

I *think* it's a problem with the package, rather than R 2.9.2, and I hope
the problem will soon be fixed.  I was able to use predict.Design with 2.9.2
until I updated the Design package a few days ago.

david freedman


zhu yao wrote:
> 
> I uses the Design library.
> 
> take this example:
> 
> library(Design)
> n <- 1000
> set.seed(731)
> age <- 50 + 12*rnorm(n)
> label(age) <- "Age"
> sex <- factor(sample(c('Male','Female'), n,
>               rep=TRUE, prob=c(.6, .4)))
> cens <- 15*runif(n)
> h <- .02*exp(.04*(age-50)+.8*(sex=='Female'))
> dt <- -log(runif(n))/h
> label(dt) <- 'Follow-up Time'
> e <- ifelse(dt <= cens,1,0)
> dt <- pmin(dt, cens)
> units(dt) <- "Year"
> dd <- datadist(age, sex)
> options(datadist='dd')
> Srv <- Surv(dt,e)
> 
> f <- cph(Srv ~ rcs(age,4) + sex, x=TRUE, y=TRUE)
> cox.zph(f, "rank")             # tests of PH
> anova(f)
> # Error in anova.Design(f) : could not find function "Varcov"
> 
> 
> 
> Yao Zhu
> Department of Urology
> Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center
> No. 270 Dongan Road, Shanghai, China
> 
> 
> 2009/9/12 Ronggui Huang <ronggui.huang at gmail.com>
> 
>> I cannot reproduce the problem you mentioned.
>>
>> >  ctl <- c(4.17,5.58,5.18,6.11,4.50,4.61,5.17,4.53,5.33,5.14)
>> >  trt <- c(4.81,4.17,4.41,3.59,5.87,3.83,6.03,4.89,4.32,4.69)
>> >   group <- gl(2,10,20, labels=c("Ctl","Trt"))
>> >   weight <- c(ctl, trt)
>> >   anova(lm.D9 <- lm(weight ~ group))
>> > sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24)
>> i386-pc-mingw32
>>
>> locale:
>> LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of
>> China.936;LC_CTYPE=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of
>> China.936;LC_MONETARY=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of
>> China.936;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic
>> of China.936
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> 2009/9/12 zhu yao <mailzhuyao at gmail.com>:
>> > After upgrading R to 2.9.2, I can't use the anova() fuction.
>> > It says "could not find function "Varcov" ".
>> > What's wrong with my computer? Help needed, thanks!
>> >
>> > Yao Zhu
>> > Department of Urology
>> > Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center
>> > No. 270 Dongan Road, Shanghai, China
>> >
>> >        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>> >
>> > ______________________________________________
>> > R-help at r-project.org mailing list
>> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> > PLEASE do read the posting guide
>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> HUANG Ronggui, Wincent
>> Doctoral Candidate
>> Dept of Public and Social Administration
>> City University of Hong Kong
>> Home page: http://asrr.r-forge.r-project.org/rghuang.html
>>
> 
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