[R] Amelia error

[Gaurav Sood]

Easily fixed, Peter -

str(ad04)
'data.frame':   1195 obs. of  15 variables:
 $ V040001  : num  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
 $ insurance: num  7 2 4 1 5 2 7 1 5 5 ...
 $ jobs     : num  7 3 4 1 6 5 7 5 4 7 ...
 $ services : num  5 2 5 1 5 2 7 1 4 7 ...
 $ ss       : num  2 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 3 ...
 $ women    : num  1 2 4 1 4 4 1 1 1 1 ...
 $ abortion : num  3 3 3 NA 3 3 1 1 NA 1 ...
 $ gayrights: num  1 1 2 NA 4 4 1 1 NA 4 ...
 $ demrep   : num  4 3 7 4 7 4 7 2 3 7 ...
 $ libcon   : num  4 4 6 4 6 6 6 4 3 6 ...
 $ educ     : num  8 5 7 3 4 8 7 5 8 8 ...
 $ south    : num  0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 ...
 $ gender   : Factor w/ 2 levels "1. Male","2. Female": 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 1 2 ...
 $ demrep.1 : num  4 3 7 4 7 4 7 2 3 7 ...
 $ race     : chr  "White" "Other" "White" "Other" ...


On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Peter Ehlers <ehlers at ucalgary.ca> wrote:
> 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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