Hi Aoife, I think that if you simply replace each "*" in the data file with "NA", then it should work ("NA" is usually interpreted as "missing" for those functions for which missingness is relevant). How you subsequently deal with records which have missing values is another question (or many questions ... ).
So your data should look like: V1 V2 V3 Survival Event ann 13 WTHomo 4 1 ben 20 NA 5 1 tom 40 Variant 6 1 Hoping this helps, Ted. On 19-Dec-2014 10:12:00 aoife doherty wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a data set like this: > > Test.cox file: > > V1 V2 V3 Survival Event > ann 13 WTHomo 4 1 > ben 20 * 5 1 > tom 40 Variant 6 1 > > > where "*" indicates that I don't know what the value is for V3 for Ben. > > I've set up a Cox model to run like this: > >#!/usr/bin/Rscript > library(bdsmatrix) > library(kinship2) > library(survival) > library(coxme) > death.dat <- read.table("Test.cox",header=T) > deathdat.kmat <-2*with(death.dat,makekinship(famid,ID,faid,moid)) > sink("Test.cox.R.Output") > Model <- coxme(Surv(Survival,Event)~ strata(factor(V1)) + > strata(factor(V2)) + factor(V3)) + > (1|ID),data=death.dat,varlist=deathdat.kmat) > Model > sink() > > > > As you can see from the Test.cox file, I have a missing value "*". How and > where do I tell the R script "treat * as a missing variable". If I can't > incorporate missing values into the model, I assume the alternative is to > remove all of the rows with missing data, which will greatly reduce my data > set, as most rows have at least one missing variable. > > Thanks > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> Date: 19-Dec-2014 Time: 10:21:23 This message was sent by XFMail ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.