[R-sig-ME] MCMCglmm predictions

[Jarrod Hadfield]

Hi Shamil,

This is fixed in MCMCglmm_2.18 which is now on CRAN. The Mac OS X  
binary has not been built yet (perhaps tonight) but you can install  
from source. For other OS its ready. Let me know if there is still a  
problem.

Cheers,

Jarrod

Quoting Shamil Sadigov <shamil at gmail.com> on Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:13:09 +0200:

> Hello All,
>
> I am using the MCMCglmm package to fit a multivariate ordered probit model
> for 5 ordinal variables. Parameter estimation was successful, so was the
> prediction on the linear scale. However, when I tried prediction on the
> response scale I got the following error:
>
>> eq5d.mcmc2bfix.p.pred <- predict(eq5d.mcmc2bfix.p, type="response")
> Error in M[, which(rm.v), ] <- 0 : incorrect number of subscripts
>
> When I looked at the predict.MCMCglmm() function from the package, I
> noticed that the M matrix was specified as a 3-dimentional array - hence
> the incorrect number of substripts error.
>
>  M <- model.matrix(~v.terms[nz] - 1)
>                   M[, which(rm.v), ] <- 0
>
> I am using the version:
>
>> packageVersion("MCMCglmm")
> [1] '2.17'
>
>
> Note:
>> eq5d.mcmc2bfix.p.pred <- predict(eq5d.mcmc2bfix.p, type="terms")
> works with no error.
>
> Regards,
> Shamil.
>
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