
On Nov 13, 2008, at 7:56 PM, irishmhw wrote:

>
> This is strange the first function that I am doing this for is  
> saying in the
> typeof() is a double for some reason this is coming up as a list.

Well, dataframes _are_ lists.

>
>> str(spread)
> 'data.frame':   18 obs. of  1 variable:
> $ bootdataframe.age: num  1.46e-09 1.67e-09 1.46e-09 1.45e-09  
> 1.37e-09 ...

I'm pretty sure you cannot send an entire dataframe to quantile.  
Pretty sure you need to give a vector argument. So what happens when  
you try:

  exp_CIs <- quantile( spread$bootdataframe.age,  
probs=c(0.01,0.05,0.95,0.99) )

-- 
David Winsemius
Heritage Labs

>
>> typeof(spread)
> [1] "list"
>> class(spread)
> [1] "data.frame"
>>
>
>
> David Winsemius wrote:
>>
>> Please show us what you get when you execute:
>>
>> str(spead)
>> typeof(spread)
>> class(spread)
>>
>> It is doubtful that either of your theories is correct. It's more
>> likely that spread is a more complex object than you realize. We need
>> to know what spread looks like to the R interpreter in the  
>> environment
>> where it is being called.
>>
>> -- 
>> David Winsemius
>> Heritage Labs
>>
>>
>> On Nov 13, 2008, at 3:29 PM, irishmhw wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> If anyone can assist with this problem you have my great thanks:
>>>
>>> I am trying to establish and plot confidence intervals on a
>>> bootstrapped
>>> function.  I have a more complicated function that has no problems
>>> with
>>> determining the confidence intervals using the quantile command.
>>> This is
>>> outside the bootstrap portion of the code that is working fine it is
>>> just
>>> determining everything for the more complicated model, not even sure
>>> what
>>> the error is telling me.
>>>
>>>>  spread <- expntl.dr(plot_k_list,pdose)
>>>>  exp_CIs <- quantile(spread,probs=c(0.01,0.05,0.95,0.99))
>>> Error in order(list(bootdataframe.age = c(1.56064428047387e-09,
>>> 1.63862234892065e-09,  :
>>> unimplemented type 'list' in 'orderVector1'
>>>>
>>>
>>> I am not sure if this is problem with the quantile command trying to
>>> order
>>> the data or if the values in the spread are too close together.
>>>
>>> Thank you for any assistance you can offer.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>> --
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