I get this error .... on using the, traceback() function :-- > traceback() 10: .Call("La_dgesv", a, b, tol, PACKAGE = "base") 9: solve.default(Szz) 8: solve(Szz) 7: pcor.mat(firstvalue, secondvalue, third_var, method, na.rm = T) 6: PartialCorr_Calculation(value1, value2, third_var, method = "pearson", na.rm = T) 5: Partial(contrld_third_var(rowvalues$matrix1, rowvalues$matrix2, x <- stringOfItemCategoryToDataFrameOfItemCategory, item_category_table, pcor_type <- "ic"), data1, data2, pcor_thirdvar_type <- "all") 4: main() 3: eval.with.vis(expr, envir, enclos) 2: eval.with.vis(ei, envir) 1: source("correlationFP.R")
what is this error ".*Call("La_dgesv", a, b, tol, PACKAGE = "base")*" how can i rectify it? I don't know statistics...going mad ,debugging this problem.. any help is highly appreciated !! :) Thanks in advance Moumita On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Moumita Das <das.moumita.onl...@gmail.com>wrote: > > I get this error while computing partial correlation. > > > *Error in solve.default(Szz) : > system is computationally singular: reciprocal condition number = > 4.90109e-18* > > Why is it?Can anyone give me some idea ,how do i get rid it it? > > This is the function i use for calculating partial correlation. > > > pcor.mat <- function(x,y,z,method="p",na.rm=T){ > > > x <- c(x) > y <- c(y) > z <- as.data.frame(z) > > > > if(dim(z)[2] == 0){ > stop("There should be given data\n") > } > > data <- data.frame(x,y,z) > > if(na.rm == T){ > data = na.omit(data) > } > > xdata <- na.omit(data.frame(data[,c(1,2)])) > Sxx <- cov(xdata,xdata,m=method) > > xzdata <- na.omit(data) > xdata <- data.frame(xzdata[,c(1,2)]) > zdata <- data.frame(xzdata[,-c(1,2)]) > Sxz <- cov(xdata,zdata,m=method) > > zdata <- na.omit(data.frame(data[,-c(1,2)])) > Szz <- cov(zdata,zdata,m=method) > > > # is Szz positive definite? > zz.ev <- eigen(Szz)$values > if(min(zz.ev)[1]<0){ > > stop("\'Szz\' is not positive definite!\n") > } > > # partial correlation > Sxx.z <- Sxx - Sxz %*% solve(Szz) %*% t(Sxz) > > print(Sxx.z) # this gets printed > > rxx.z <- cov2cor(Sxx.z)[1,2] #some problem in this function > function (V) > { > print("cov2cor") > p <- (d <- dim(V))[1] > if (!is.numeric(V) || length(d) != 2L || p != d[2L]) > stop("'V' is not a square numeric matrix") > Is <- sqrt(1/diag(V)) > if (any(!is.finite(Is))) > warning("diag(.) had 0 or NA entries; non-finite result is > doubtful") > r <- V > r[] <- Is * V * rep(Is, each = p) > r[cbind(1L:p, 1L:p)] <- 1 > r > } > return(rxx.z) > } > > -- > Thanks > Moumita > -- Thanks Moumita [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.