Or if David's answer seems like too much work you could use the `mvrnorm`
function in the MASS package to generate 2 vectors with the given
correlation and sample size and feed those vectors to the `cor.test`
function.

Or Pearson's test can be computed in 1 line of R code without needing any
special functions:
pt( print( r*sqrt( (n-2)/(1-r^2) ) ), n-2, lower=FALSE )

Or a test based on simulation (parametric bootstrap) can be constructed in
a single line as well (though may be more readable and give other useful
info if spread over a few lines):
mean( replicate(100000, cor( rnorm(n),rnorm(n) )) >= r )

Which of these are actually more/less work depends on your current brand of
lazyness.


On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 4:12 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:

>
> On Feb 24, 2013, at 1:29 PM, Martin Batholdy wrote:
>
> > Dear Miguel,
> >
> > thanks!
> > But I actually do not have two vectors but just a correlation
> coefficient and want to get the p value.
> > As far as I can see it, cor.test only works when having raw data pairs
> or am I missing something?
> >
> >
>
> You are ignoring the fact that the code is readily accessible. It first
> calculates the cor() results and then works with it using that vale and the
> numbers of cases. It doesn't seem to me that it should be at all difficult
> to modify the code to take cor() and N and return a statistic of your
> choosing.
>
> --
> David.
> > On Feb 24, 2013, at 22:24 , Miguel Manese <jjonphl@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Martin,
> >>
> >> See ?cor.test
> >>
> >> example(cor.test)
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> - Jon
> >>
> >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Martin Batholdy
> >> <batholdy@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> is there a predefined function that computes the p- or t-value
> >>> based on a correlation coefficient and its sample size?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> thanks!
> >>>
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