For the list to have any hope of helping, we need at the very least a small reproducible example, one that comes with data and gives the same error. We don't even know what commands you issued.
Sarah On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Rohini Sen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > > > I'm new to R and work with psychometrics (Item response theory). I was using > a package called "cirt" to model a data that contains only 0s, 1s and 9s. The > package is basically used for Monte Carlo Markov Chain estimation of > parameters and I specified 5000 iterations. The model seems to run fine but > when I try to recover odds ratio statistics using the function "irtfit" (part > of the cirt package), I keep getting the following error. I tried to already > look on R mailing list serves to understand what this could possibly mean. My > only understanding so far is that there is some entry in my data set that is > not a 0, 1 or a 9..or that there's some spacing issue? I did check my data > thoroughly though and there seems to be no issue. > > > > Odds Ratio Statistic > item Error in rep("*", wholeWidths[i]) : invalid 'times' > argument > > > > Can some one please advise? Any ideas would help. Thank you so much! > > > > Rohini Sen > > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list 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.

