[R] parcor package example for adalasso.net fails.

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 15/08/2013 10:56, Witold E Wolski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a bit surprised that an example code from an R-package installed
> from CRAN can fail:
>
>
>> n<-20
>> p<-10
>> X<-matrix(rnorm(n*p),ncol=p)
>> pc<-adalasso.net(X,k=5)
> Performing local (adaptive) lasso regressions
> Vertex no Error in glmnet(XXtrain, ytrain, type.gaussian = type,
> standardize = FALSE) :
>    x should be a matrix with 2 or more columns
>>
>
> regards
>

Why are you surprised? See
http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_parcor.html
and note that glmnet was updated recently.

Complaints to the parcor 'maintainer' only ... she is not responding to 
notifications and the package is scheduled to be archived shortly.

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