... another possibiity, probably more likely since you read your files in
from disk, is that there is a stray character of some sort (e.g. extra
comma, quotation mark, period) in your data that is causing what should be
numeric data to be read in as character. Check your data after you've read
them in.

-- Bert

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter@gene.com> wrote:

> The man page tells you that y must be a factor. Is it?
> -- Bert
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Noah <noah.hu@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I got an error message saying
>>
>> Error in lognet(x, is.sparse, ix, jx, y, weights, offset, alpha, nobs,  :
>>  NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 5)
>>
>> when I try to analysis a binary trait using glmnet(R) by running the
>> following code
>>
>> library(glmnet)
>> Xori <- read.table("c:\\SNP.txt", sep='\t');
>> Yori <- read.table("c:\\Trait.txt", sep=',');
>> Y=as.matrix(Yori);
>> X=t(as.matrix(Xori));
>> fit1=glmnet(X, Y, family="binomial");
>>
>> in the above, X is a matrix with values 1, 0, and -1; Y is a one column
>> matrix with values 1 and 0.
>>
>> I know how to analysis continuous traits using glmnet, but I have no idea
>> about how to do it for binary dependent variables. I will appreciate it if
>> you would give me any suggestion about this error or provide an example
>> code
>> for handling binary trait using glmnet.
>>
>> Looking forward for your kindly help.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Noah
>>
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>
> --
> "Men by nature long to get on to the ultimate truths, and will often be
> impatient with elementary studies or fight shy of them. If it were possible
> to reach the ultimate truths without the elementary studies usually prefixed
> to them, these would not be preparatory studies but superfluous diversions."
>
> -- Maimonides (1135-1204)
>
> Bert Gunter
> Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
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-- 
"Men by nature long to get on to the ultimate truths, and will often be
impatient with elementary studies or fight shy of them. If it were possible
to reach the ultimate truths without the elementary studies usually prefixed
to them, these would not be preparatory studies but superfluous diversions."

-- Maimonides (1135-1204)

Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics

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