Hi,

I have a data file which is named test.txt as below. Prior to that, I have
converted the last row from nominal to numeric using as.integer.

 Statement T1001 T1002 T1003 T1004 T1005 T100 T1014 T1021 T1022 T1023
1         0     0     0     0     0     0    0     0     1     0     0
2        0     0     0     0     0     0    0     0     1     0     0
3         0     1     0     0     1     0    0     0     1     0     0
4       406  pass  pass  fail  pass  pass pass  pass  pass  pass  pass

After as.integer of "pass", the below data is been transformed.

 Statement T1001 T1002 T1003 T1004 T1005 T100 T1014 T1021 T1022 T1023
1         0     0     0     0     0     0    0     0     1     0     0
2        0     0     0     0     0     0    0     0     1     0     0
3         0     1     0     0     1     0    0     0     1     0     0
4       0      1      1     0     1    1     1     1     1     1     1


The 1,2,3 and 4 on the first column is the automatic numbering seen on the
terminal when i pasted here.

And, i try to use matrix multiplication which is
as.matrix(data[1:3,2:11])%*% sign(t(data[4,2:11]))
Basically i wanted to count from column 2 onwards..which i want to ignore
the Statement column data.

Error in sign(t(data[4, 2:11])) : Non-numeric argument to mathematical
function.
I try take off the column constraint which is
as.matrix(data[1:3,])%*% sign(t(data[4,]))
but it still gives me
Error in sign(t(data[4, ])) : Non-numeric argument to mathematical function

I didnt understand how this error relate to my data above. Because my data
is not a character at the first place and its a data.frame.


Please help.Thanks..

Rgrds,
Jason

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