Dear all, I'm a bit surprised by this behavior in poly: x <- c(NA, 1:10) poly(x, degree = 2, raw=TRUE) ## Error in poly(x, degree = 2, raw = TRUE) : ## missing values are not allowed in 'poly' x^2 ## [1] NA 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100
As you can see, poly() will fail if the vector contains NAs, whereas it is perfectly possible to obtain the square of the vector manually. Is there a reason for this limitation in poly? Regards, Liviu -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library ______________________________________________ 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.
