Somewhere you'd named an R object var, which is also the name of the function.
There's no way to access part of a function with $ so var$contrib is throwing the closure error, which is telling you that you can't index a function. Sarah On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 12:14 PM, John, Larry <larry.j...@anser.org> wrote: > Am using R version 3.2.4 in a fully updated version of Windows 7 and the most > current versions of coorplot, FactoMineR and factoextra to support multiple > correspondence analysis. However, today, a line of code that worked just fine > on one set of data produced an error message on a different set of data. > > Specifically, when I ran: > > corrplot(var$contrib, is.corr = FALSE) > > I received the following message: > >> corrplot(var$contrib, is.corr = FALSE) > Error in var$contrib : object of type 'closure' is not subsettable > > Can you please tell me what this error message means and roughly what I might > need to do to correct it? If necessary, I can provide the original data files. > > Many thanks for your kind help. > > Very Respectfully, > > Larry John > Principal Analyst > ANSER ______________________________________________ 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.