[R] Problem with Median
Suhaila Haji Mohd Hussin
bell_beauty12 at hotmail.com
Mon May 7 21:05:02 CEST 2012
I might be silly but if I was going to type in dput() then how should I send the data over here?
Instead, I've just uploaded the image online, you can access it via the link below.
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/q585/halfpirate/data.jpg
> Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:55:24 -0400
> Subject: Re: [R] Problem with Median
> From: sarah.goslee at gmail.com
> To: bell_beauty12 at hotmail.com
> CC: r-help at r-project.org
>
> Please use dput() to give us your data (eg dput(data) ) rather than
> simply pasting it in.
>
> Sarah
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Suhaila Haji Mohd Hussin
> <bell_beauty12 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello.
> > I'm trying to compute median for a filtered column based on other column but there was something wrong. I'll show how I did step by step.
> > Here's the data:
> > a b c class
> >
> > 1 12 0 90 A-B2 3 97 11 A-B3 78 NA 123 A-C4 NA NA 12 A-C5 8 33 2 A-B6 12 NA 0 A-D
> > On the command I typed:
> > 1) data = read.csv("data.csv")
> >
> > 2) a.AC <- subset(data, class == "A-C", select = a)
> > 3) median(a.AC)Error in median.default(a.AC) : need numeric data
> > 4) is.numeric(a.AC)FALSE
> > 5) as.numeric(a.AC)Error: (list) object cannot be coerced to type 'double'
> > How can I fix this? Please help.
> > Cheers,Suhaila
>
>
> --
> Sarah Goslee
> http://www.functionaldiversity.org
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