Hello Gavin, I am sorry that I haven´t read the posting guide properly. This signs ^^^^^ were not in my originally email and for sure not in my code. Thank you for your offering. I will send you the data.
Greetings Birgit Am 21.06.2007 um 20:22 schrieb Gavin Simpson: > On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 19:56 +0200, Birgit Lemcke wrote: >> Hello you all from the R Help mailing list! >> >> I am working on a PowerBook with Mac Os X and use R 2.5.0. >> I used the distance function from the analogue package to perform a >> similarity analysis using the Gowers Index and weighted Variables. >> My variables are bivariate data and measurements as well as interval >> data transformed into minimum and maximum variables. >> I used this Code: >> >> Dist.Gowa<-distance(Table1a ,Table0a ,method ="mixed", weights > ^^^^^^^^ >> >> (weighting),R = NULL ) > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > Something is not right there (^^^^) is this exactly what you typed? > > You should not send questions about contributed packages to the > list --- > as detailed in the posting guide. Without seeing Table1a and > Table0a, it > is hard to say why this is failing - I suspect something about the > structure of the two data frames is throwing the function off. > > If you can, send me that data ***off-list*** and I will take a look > for > you, but as I'm teaching all day tomorrow, it won't happen till after > the weekend now. > > HTH > > G > >> >> >> weighting is a vector created by this code: >> >> (weighting<- c >> (1/3,1/3,1/3,1/2,1/2,1/2,1/2,1/2,1/2,1/4,1/4,1/4,1/4,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7, >> 1/7 >> , >> 1/7,1/7,1/3,1/3,1/3,1/5,1/5,1/5,1/5,1/5,1/9,1/9,1/9,1/9,1/9,1/9,1/9,1 >> /9, >> 1/9,1/5,1/5,1/5,1/5,1/5,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7,1/7,1 >> /7, >> 1/7,1/7,1/5,1/5,1/5,1/5,1/5,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 >> ,1, >> 1,1)) >> It contains the weightings for the variables of the two data tables. >> >> My data tables look like this: >> >> >> Anth_cap1 8.0 NA NA 4.0 5.0 1 1 3.0 5.0 2.4 4.5 5 >> 5 2 2 2 3 1 1 1 1 >> Anth_crin1 5.0 NA NA 3.5 11.0 1 1 3.0 10.0 2.0 4.5 3 >> 4 2 2 3 3 1 1 2 3 >> Anth_eck1 7.0 NA NA 6.0 12.0 1 1 6.0 11.0 2.0 3.0 3 >> 5 2 2 3 3 1 1 1 2 >> >> At the end of the analysis I get always this message: >> >> 1: $ operator is deprecated for atomic vectors, returning NULL in: >> object$na.action >> 2: $ operator is deprecated for atomic vectors, returning NULL in: >> object$weights >> >> Can anybody explain me what this means? >> >> Does anybody know if I have to standardize my measurements. As I >> understood this is included in Gowers Index. If not is there a >> function with different options of standardization more than rescaler >> from the reshape package provides? >> >> Thanks for your help in advance. >> >> Greetings >> >> Birgit >> >> Birgit Lemcke >> Institut fr Systematische Botanik >> Zollikerstrasse 107 >> CH-8008 Zrich >> Switzerland >> Ph: +41 (0)44 634 8351 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [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. > -- > %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% > Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 > ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 > Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk > Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ > UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk > %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% > Birgit Lemcke Institut für Systematische Botanik Zollikerstrasse 107 CH-8008 Zürich Switzerland Ph: +41 (0)44 634 8351 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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