On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 09:41 -0700, Vik Rubenfeld wrote: > I'm experienced in statistics, but I am a first-time R user. I would like to > use R for correspondence analysis. I have installed R (Mac OSX). I have used > the package installer to install the CA package. I have run the following > line with no errors to read in the data for a table: > > NonLuxury <- read.table("/Users/myUserName/Desktop/nonLuxury.data.txt") > > The R online help appears to suggest that the following line should come next: > > > corresp(NonLuxury) > > However, I get the error message: > > Error: could not find function "corresp"
You do need to load packages before you can use functions that are contained within those packages. For `corresp`, try require(MASS) corresp(NonLuxury) The MASS packages comes with R as a recommended package, so it should already be installed. HTH G > > The CA manual appears to suggest that the following line should come next: > > > ca(NonLuxury) > > Again, I get the error message: > > Error: could not find function "ca" > > What am I missing? Thanks very much in advance to all for any info. > > > -Vik > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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. -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. 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 %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.