On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Spencer Graves wrote:

Dear Prof. Ripley: With library(MASS), I got the following in R 2.0.1 under Windows 2000:
X
   [,1] [,2]
[1,]    1    3
[2,]    2   NA
ginv(X)
Error in svd(X) : infinite or missing values in x

This may not relate to Tongtong Wu's problem, but it used "ginv" in library(MASS) as you suggested and did produce the cited error message.

I said `introduce'. The cause of the error is in X, not introduced by ginv. pseudoinverse can introduce NaNs/infinities.


Please do remember the care I take when writing things.

BDR


    spencer graves

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, WU,TONGTONG wrote:

Hi,

 I met a probem recently and need your help.  I would really appreciate
it.

 I kept receiving the following error message when running a program:

'Error in svd(X) : infinite or missing values in x'.

However, I did not use any svd function in this program though I did
include the function pseudoinverse.  Is the problem caused by doing
pseudoinverse?


Where did you find that function? It is not part of R as it ships, and it *may* be part of GeneTS, where it calls svd after squaring the matrix. But there are simpler pseudoinverse functions (e.g. ginv in MASS) that will not introduce that error.

The tool you needed was traceback(): try it to see what it tells you here.




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