Hi all and thanks for your time in advance,

I can't figure out why summary.lmrob complains when lmrob is used on a
zooreg object. If the zooreg object is converted to vector before
calling lmrob, no problems appear.

Let me clarify this with an example:

>library(robustbase)
>library(zoo)
>dad<-c(801.4625,527.2062,545.2250,608.2313,633.8875,575.9500,797.0500,706.4188,
816.7000,619.1187,430.6188,852.1750,574.9937,528.1250,376.6187,507.7437,
443.0813,463.6250,716.1063,529.1250,705.7437,959.2937,653.0187,717.4438,
644.3125,718.1000,620.5187,759.3312,712.9750,606.6688,451.9250,560.2313,
308.1875,551.7687,615.3312,673.1250,678.4562,485.5312,491.8875,568.5688,
689.5750,507.0875,467.9125,539.4875,461.8625,827.3750,507.9250,526.5688,
363.9625,355.8813,585.9750,792.8438,698.6250,625.1063,463.4875,619.4688,
684.9438,815.3438)

> mod1<-lmrob(dad~seq(58))
> summary(mod1)

Call:
lmrob(formula = dad ~ seq(58))

Weighted Residuals:
     Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max 
-291.106  -98.083    0.912  102.219  349.697 

Coefficients:
            Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept) 630.2021    38.5583  16.344   <2e-16 ***
seq(58)      -0.9366     1.1639  -0.805    0.424    
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 

Robust residual standard error: 147.3 
Convergence in 8 IRWLS iterations

Robustness weights: 
 4 weights are ~= 1. The remaining 54 ones are summarized as
   Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max. 
 0.5522  0.8858  0.9537  0.9212  0.9831  0.9990 
Algorithmic parameters: 
tuning.chi         bb tuning.psi refine.tol    rel.tol 
 1.5476400  0.5000000  4.6850610  0.0000001  0.0000001 
 nResample     max.it     groups    n.group   best.r.s   k.fast.s
k.max 
       500         50          5        400          2          1
200 
 trace.lev compute.rd 
         0          0 
seed : int(0) 
> 
> mod1<-lmrob(as.zooreg(dad)~seq(58))
> summary(mod1)

Call:
lmrob(formula = as.zooreg(dad) ~ seq(58))

Weighted Residuals:
Error in if (xi == xj) 0L else if (xi > xj) 1L else -1L : 
  argument is of length zero


 

My problem is I typically work with zooreg objects and summary.lmrob
complains unless I convert them to vector in the lmrob call. Any idea
what is going wrong?


Thanks a lot,

Víctor.

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