Hello Gavin,

I am sorry that I haven´t read the posting guide properly.
This signs ^^^^^ were not in my originally email and for sure not in  
my code.
Thank you for your offering. I will send you the data.

Greetings

Birgit

Am 21.06.2007 um 20:22 schrieb Gavin Simpson:

> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 19:56 +0200, Birgit Lemcke wrote:
>> Hello you all from the R Help mailing list!
>>
>> I am working on a PowerBook with Mac Os X and use R 2.5.0.
>> I used the distance function from the analogue package to perform a
>> similarity analysis using the Gowers Index and weighted Variables.
>> My variables are bivariate data and measurements as well as interval
>> data transformed into minimum and maximum variables.
>> I used this Code:
>>
>> Dist.Gowa<-distance(Table1a ,Table0a ,method ="mixed", weights
>                                                          ^^^^^^^^
>>
>> (weighting),R = NULL )
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^
> Something is not right there (^^^^) is this exactly what you typed?
>
> You should not send questions about contributed packages to the  
> list ---
> as detailed in the posting guide. Without seeing Table1a and  
> Table0a, it
> is hard to say why this is failing - I suspect something about the
> structure of the two data frames is throwing the function off.
>
> If you can, send me that data ***off-list*** and I will take a look  
> for
> you, but as I'm teaching all day tomorrow, it won't happen till after
> the weekend now.
>
> HTH
>
> G
>
>>
>>
>> weighting is a vector created by this code:
>>
>>   (weighting<- c
>> (1/3,1/3,1/3,1/2,1/2,1/2,1/2,1/2,1/2,1/4,1/4,1/4,1/4,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7, 
>> 1/7
>> ,
>> 1/7,1/7,1/3,1/3,1/3,1/5,1/5,1/5,1/5,1/5,1/9,1/9,1/9,1/9,1/9,1/9,1/9,1 
>> /9,
>> 1/9,1/5,1/5,1/5,1/5,1/5,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7,1 
>> /7,
>> 1/7,1/7,1/5,1/5,1/5,1/5,1/5,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 
>> ,1,
>> 1,1))
>> It contains the weightings for the variables of the two data tables.
>>
>> My data tables look like this:
>>
>>
>> Anth_cap1        8.0  NA   NA  4.0  5.0  1  1  3.0  5.0  2.4  4.5  5
>> 5  2  2  2  3  1  1  1  1
>> Anth_crin1       5.0  NA   NA  3.5 11.0  1  1  3.0 10.0  2.0  4.5  3
>> 4  2  2  3  3  1  1  2  3
>> Anth_eck1        7.0  NA   NA  6.0 12.0  1  1  6.0 11.0  2.0  3.0  3
>> 5  2  2  3  3  1  1  1  2
>>
>> At the end of the analysis I get always this message:
>>
>> 1: $ operator is deprecated for atomic vectors, returning NULL in:
>> object$na.action
>> 2: $ operator is deprecated for atomic vectors, returning NULL in:
>> object$weights
>>
>> Can anybody explain me what this means?
>>
>> Does anybody know if I have to standardize my measurements. As I
>> understood this is included in Gowers Index. If not is there a
>> function with different options of standardization more than rescaler
>> from the reshape package provides?
>>
>> Thanks for your help in advance.
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Birgit
>>
>> Birgit Lemcke
>> Institut fr Systematische Botanik
>> Zollikerstrasse 107
>> CH-8008 Zrich
>> Switzerland
>> Ph: +41 (0)44 634 8351
>> birgit.lemcke@systbot.uzh.ch
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Birgit Lemcke
Institut für Systematische Botanik
Zollikerstrasse 107
CH-8008 Zürich
Switzerland
Ph: +41 (0)44 634 8351
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