Sarah Goslee says: "I'd take a good look at trainlength, trainscores and traindev using str() and summary(), and print at least part of each to the screen. If the same line of code works with one dataset and not another, the problem is more likely your data than your code. If that doesn't help you figure it out, posting the str() and summary() results here can help the R-helpers diagnose the problem."
OK, here's summary and str for those three variables: > summary(trainscores) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. 0.1314 66.8400 83.3000 78.4900 98.0700 99.9000 > str(trainscores) num [1:257] 87.0 99.9 47.2 99.7 67.2 ... > summary(trainlength) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. 257 257 257 257 257 257 > str(trainlength) int 257 > summary(traindev) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. 22.31 22.31 22.31 22.31 22.31 22.31 > str(traindev) num 22.3 This is run on my entire dataset. The program I've written actually takes the overall dataset and divides it into several subgroups, then runs the analysis and calls odfWeave for each. Hence the checks to ensure that the dataset is not empty before running it. So the code to calculate traindev works fine in the R window. I can perform further calculations on it, etc. Additionally, trainmean<-if (trainlength >0) round(mean(trainscores, na.rm=T),1) else "" on the same data produces a result that imports fine into odfWeave. And as noted below, a similarly-constructed sd calculation on a different subset of the data is giving me no problems elsewhere in the document. Thanks for looking at this with me! * * * * * to summarize the previous message, in the codeblock trainusers<-sessionusers[sessionusers$tally=="train",] #training sessions only trainscores<-if (reporttype=="Competency") trainusers$competence_score_total*100 else trainusers$knowledge_score_total*100 trainlength<- length(trainusers[,1]) trainmean<-if (trainlength >0) round(mean(trainscores, na.rm=T),1) else "" traindev <- if (trainlength>0) sd(trainscores, na.rm=T) else "" the variable traindev is causing this error when I try to report it using odfWeave: Error: 1: Start tag expected, '<' not found But the variables trainlength and trainmean import into the document without problems. Meanwhile the similarly-constructed postusers<-sessionusers[sessionusers$tally=="post",] #post sessions only postscores<-if (reporttype=="Competency") postusers$competence_score_total*100 else postusers$knowledge_score_total*100 postlength<- length(postusers[,1]) postmean<- if (postlength>0) round(mean(postscores, na.rm=T),1) else "" postsd<- if (postlength>0) round(sd(postscores, na.rm=T),1) else "" causes no problems with any variables including the sd variable. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Baffled%3A-triggering-error-message-with-an-sd-result-in-odfWeave--tp21016679p21017460.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.