[R] Amelia error

[Peter Ehlers]

On 2012-04-18 11:18, Gaurav Sood wrote:
> Using: Amelia::amelia
>
> R version: 2.15
> OS: Windows 7 Enterprise
>
> data = National Election Studies (cross-sectional); mostly ordinal
> variables, some nominal
>
> summary(ad04)
>
>     insurance          jobs          services           ss            women
>   Min.   :1.000   Min.   :1.000   Min.   :1.000   Min.   :1.000   Min.   :1.00
>   1st Qu.:2.000   1st Qu.:3.000   1st Qu.:2.000   1st Qu.:1.000   1st Qu.:1.00
>   Median :4.000   Median :4.000   Median :3.000   Median :1.000   Median :1.00
>   Mean   :3.656   Mean   :4.207   Mean   :3.478   Mean   :1.408   Mean   :1.92
>   3rd Qu.:5.000   3rd Qu.:6.000   3rd Qu.:4.000   3rd Qu.:2.000   3rd Qu.:2.00
>   Max.   :7.000   Max.   :7.000   Max.   :7.000   Max.   :3.000   Max.   :7.00
>   NA's   :97      NA's   :105     NA's   :146     NA's   :21      NA's   :52

It would be far more useful to provide the result of str(ad04) than
the above useless summary.

Peter Ehlers

>
> aout04<- amelia(ad04,noms=c("race","south","gender","demrep"), m=5)
> Error in if (sum(non.vary == 0)) { :
>    argument is not interpretable as logical
> In addition: Warning message:
> In FUN(X[[34L]], ...) : NAs introduced by coercion
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Sarah Goslee<sarah.goslee at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Do you mean the Amelia package? Or a function named Amelia()?
>>
>> What is your OS and version of R and package?
>>
>> What are the commands you are using?
>>
>> What do your data look like?
>>
>> Can you provide a reproducible example?
>>
>> Did you read the posting guide?
>>
>> Your problem doesn't "seem like a bug" rather than user error unless
>> we know a whole lot more about it.
>>
>> Sarah
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Gaurav Sood<gsood07 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Encountering the following error using Amelia -
>>>
>>> Error in if (sum(non.vary == 0)) { :
>>>   argument is not interpretable as logical
>>> In addition: Warning message:
>>> In FUN(X[[34L]], ...) : NAs introduced by coercion
>>>
>>> Seems like a bug.
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Sarah Goslee
>> http://www.functionaldiversity.org
>
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