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

[Carlos Alzola]

Did you type library(Hmisc,T) before loading Design?

Carlos

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From: "David Freedman" <3.14david at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 8:26 AM
To: <r-help at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] could not find function "Varcov" after upgrade of R?

>
> 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
>>> >
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>>> >
>>> > ______________________________________________
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>>> > 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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