On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Bobbie van der Westhuizen wrote: > Hi I am trying out R for the first time and it seems to work nice. > > I also try it out on a LINUX platform aswell as on Windows. I downloaded the > new version of R for windows (version 8.1.0) but something look not right in > the calculations of correlations between traits when I use the next command: > > >cor(fc,use="pairwise") > > The correlation return between the same trait (that must be 1.000) is not 1 > and sometimes it is 0.37?? When I run the same scrip with the same data in > Linux the correlation is correctly, 1.000. And when I run the following scrip > in 1.8.0 for windows it returns the correct correlation of 1.000. > > >cor.test(BIRHTMASS,BIRHTMASS,na.rm=T,method="pearson") > > Could there be a bug in this version of Windows?
Given that R 1.8.0 (sic) for Windows is not yet on CRAN, there is at least a bug in your description, and undoubtedly there are bugs in Windows. If you want to discuss a bug in R, please consult the FAQ and provide proper version information and a reproducible example. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
