[R] val.surv

2011-08-20 Thread Salvo Mac
 Dear R-users,
 
I  have two questions regarding validation and calibration of Survival 
regression models.
 
1.  I am trying to calibrate and validate a cox model using val.surv.
here is my code:
 f.1<-cph(Surv(time,event)~age, x=T, y=T, data=train)
 test1<-test[,"age"]
 val.surv(f.1, newdata=data.frame(test1), u=10)
 
 but I get an error message:
 
 Error in val.surv(f.1, newdata = data.frame(testi), u = 10) :
  dims [product 1797] do not match the length of object [2496]
 In addition: Warning message:
In est.surv + S[, 1] :
  longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length
 
 I ran the example in the r-documentation but couldn't extract  dxy from result.
 
 What am I doing wrong?  
 
 2.  In validate and calibrate cph functions. If it is frailty fit, does the 
the bootstrap resample clusters or just individuals
 
 regards,
 
 Salvo Mac
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Re: [R] val.surv

2011-08-20 Thread David Winsemius


On Aug 20, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Salvo Mac wrote:


 Dear R-users,

I  have two questions regarding validation and calibration of  
Survival regression models.


1.  I am trying to calibrate and validate a cox model using val.surv.
here is my code:
 f.1<-cph(Surv(time,event)~age, x=T, y=T, data=train)
 test1<-test[,"age"]
 val.surv(f.1, newdata=data.frame(test1), u=10)

 but I get an error message:

 Error in val.surv(f.1, newdata = data.frame(testi), u = 10) :
  dims [product 1797] do not match the length of object [2496]
 In addition: Warning message:
In est.surv + S[, 1] :
  longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length

 I ran the example in the r-documentation but couldn't extract  dxy  
from result.


 What am I doing wrong?


The fundamental thing you are doing wrong for q1  is failing to  
unambiguously describe the test object. I would think that if test  
were a dataframe then wrapping data.frame around a vector might not  
get it named correctly as 'age'. You might try newdata= test['age'].  
Just a guess.




 2.  In validate and calibrate cph functions. If it is frailty fit,  
does the the bootstrap resample clusters or just individuals


The code above appears to be dependent on the rms package. The frailty  
function is part of the underlying survival package and I do not see  
it mentioned in the index for Harrell's RMS text. You will probably  
need to wait until Frank comes across this. He is generally very good  
about correction my errors and knowledge gaps.






--

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West Hartford, CT

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Re: [R] val.surv

2011-08-20 Thread Salvo Mac
Thanks David

However, I tried your trick on val.surv with newdata=test['age'] but still 
didn't work. 
Still gives the same error message:

Error in val.surv(f.1, newdata = test1["age"], u = 10) : 
  dims [product 1797] do not match the length of object [2496]
In addition: Warning message:
In est.surv + S[, 1] :
  longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length


Salvo




From: David Winsemius 

Cc: "r-help@R-project.org" 
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: [R] val.surv


On Aug 20, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Salvo Mac wrote:

>  Dear R-users,
> 
> I  have two questions regarding validation and calibration of Survival 
> regression models.
> 
> 1.  I am trying to calibrate and validate a cox model using val.surv.
> here is my code:
>  f.1<-cph(Surv(time,event)~age, x=T, y=T, data=train)
>  test1<-test[,"age"]
>  val.surv(f.1, newdata=data.frame(test1), u=10)
> 
>  but I get an error message:
> 
>  Error in val.surv(f.1, newdata = data.frame(testi), u = 10) :
>   dims [product 1797] do not match the length of object [2496]
>  In addition: Warning message:
> In est.surv + S[, 1] :
>   longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length
> 
>  I ran the example in the r-documentation but couldn't extract  dxy from 
>result.
> 
>  What am I doing wrong?

The fundamental thing you are doing wrong for q1  is failing to unambiguously 
describe the test object. I would think that if test were a dataframe then 
wrapping data.frame around a vector might not get it named correctly as 'age'. 
You might try newdata= test['age']. Just a guess.

> 
>  2.  In validate and calibrate cph functions. If it is frailty fit, does the 
>the bootstrap resample clusters or just individuals

The code above appears to be dependent on the rms package. The frailty function 
is part of the underlying survival package and I do not see it mentioned in the 
index for Harrell's RMS text. You will probably need to wait until Frank comes 
across this. He is generally very good about correction my errors and knowledge 
gaps.

> 

--
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West Hartford, CT
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Re: [R] val.surv

2011-08-20 Thread David Winsemius


On Aug 20, 2011, at 8:08 PM, Salvo Mac wrote:


Thanks David

However, I tried your trick on val.surv with newdata=test['age'] but  
still didn't work.

Still gives the same error message:

Error in val.surv(f.1, newdata = test1["age"], u = 10) :
  dims [product 1797] do not match the length of object [2496]
In addition: Warning message:
In est.surv + S[, 1] :
  longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length



As I said (and you did not act  upon):

The fundamental thing you are doing wrong for q1  is failing to  
unambiguously describe the test object.


I said it was a guess. Now stop wasting our time and offer what is  
needed.


--
david.


Salvo




From: David Winsemius 

Cc: "r-help@R-project.org" 
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: [R] val.surv


On Aug 20, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Salvo Mac wrote:


  Dear R-users,

I  have two questions regarding validation and calibration of  
Survival regression models.


1.  I am trying to calibrate and validate a cox model using val.surv.
here is my code:
  f.1<-cph(Surv(time,event)~age, x=T, y=T, data=train)
  test1<-test[,"age"]
  val.surv(f.1, newdata=data.frame(test1), u=10)

  but I get an error message:

  Error in val.surv(f.1, newdata = data.frame(testi), u = 10) :
   dims [product 1797] do not match the length of object [2496]
  In addition: Warning message:
In est.surv + S[, 1] :
   longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length

  I ran the example in the r-documentation but couldn't extract   
dxy from result.


  What am I doing wrong?


The fundamental thing you are doing wrong for q1  is failing to  
unambiguously describe the test object. I would think that if test  
were a dataframe then wrapping data.frame around a vector might not  
get it named correctly as 'age'. You might try newdata= test['age'].  
Just a guess.




  2.  In validate and calibrate cph functions. If it is frailty  
fit, does the the bootstrap resample clusters or just individuals


The code above appears to be dependent on the rms package. The  
frailty function is part of the underlying survival package and I do  
not see it mentioned in the index for Harrell's RMS text. You will  
probably need to wait until Frank comes across this. He is generally  
very good about correction my errors and knowledge gaps.






--
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT
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Re: [R] val.surv

2011-08-20 Thread Salvo Mac
The test and train are like split data sets, contain similar variables but from 
different countries so the two sets are somehow  independent. And yes it is 
a data frame. 
So I extracted age, time and event.
So test is data frame,(age, time, event). does that suffice?




From: David Winsemius 

Cc: "r-help@R-project.org" 
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 3:19 AM
Subject: Re: [R] val.surv


On Aug 20, 2011, at 8:08 PM, Salvo Mac wrote:

> Thanks David
> 
> However, I tried your trick on val.surv with newdata=test['age'] but still 
> didn't work.
> Still gives the same error message:
> 
> Error in val.surv(f.1, newdata = test1["age"], u = 10) :
>   dims [product 1797] do not match the length of object [2496]
> In addition: Warning message:
> In est.surv + S[, 1] :
>   longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length
> 

As I said (and you did
 not act  upon):

The fundamental thing you are doing wrong for q1  is failing to unambiguously 
describe the test object.

I said it was a guess. Now stop wasting our time and offer what is needed.

--david.
> 
> Salvo
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: David Winsemius 
> 
> Cc: "r-help@R-project.org" 
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 12:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [R] val.surv
> 
> 
> On Aug 20, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Salvo Mac wrote:
> 
>>   Dear R-users,
>> 
>> I  have two questions regarding
 validation and calibration of Survival regression models.
>> 
>> 1.  I am trying to calibrate and validate a cox model using val.surv.
>> here is my code:
>>   f.1<-cph(Surv(time,event)~age, x=T, y=T, data=train)
>>   test1<-test[,"age"]
>>   val.surv(f.1, newdata=data.frame(test1), u=10)
>> 
>>   but I get an error message:
>> 
>>   Error in val.surv(f.1, newdata = data.frame(testi), u = 10) :
>>    dims [product 1797] do not match the length of object [2496]
>>   In addition: Warning message:
>> In est.surv + S[, 1] :
>>    longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length
>> 
>>   I ran the example in the r-documentation but couldn't extract  dxy from 
>>result.
>> 
>>   What am I doing wrong?
> 
> The fundamental thing you are doing wrong for q1  is failing to unambiguously 
> describe the test object. I would think that if test were a dataframe then 
> wrapping data.frame around a vector might not get it named correctly as 
> 'age'. You might try newdata= test['age']. Just a guess.
> 
>> 
>>   2.  In validate and calibrate cph functions. If it is frailty fit, does 
>>the the bootstrap resample clusters or just individuals
> 
> The code above appears to be dependent on the rms package. The frailty 
> function is part of the underlying survival package and I do not see it 
> mentioned in the index for Harrell's RMS text. You will probably need to wait 
> until Frank comes across this. He is generally very good about correction my 
> errors and knowledge gaps.
> 
>> 
> 
> --
> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
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Re: [R] val.surv

2011-08-20 Thread David Winsemius


On Aug 20, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Salvo Mac wrote:

The test and train are like split data sets, contain similar  
variables but from different countries so the two sets are somehow   
independent. And yes it is a data frame.


What is a data.frame? test and train may be dataframes, but test[,  
"age"] is not a dataframe.



So I extracted age, time and event.


Code? The code you offered before would have created a newdata object  
(yes, a data.frame) with a single column bearing the same name as the  
vector argument , "test1". Not named "age". Try it. do str on such  
an object:


str(dataframe(test1))



So test is data frame,(age, time, event). does that suffice?


It certainly does not allow me to reproduce the error you got (which I  
still think is probably related to the structure of your argument to  
newdata.)


That's all I can say without data and code.

--
David.







From: David Winsemius 

Cc: "r-help@R-project.org" 
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 3:19 AM
Subject: Re: [R] val.surv


On Aug 20, 2011, at 8:08 PM, Salvo Mac wrote:


Thanks David

However, I tried your trick on val.surv with newdata=test['age']  
but still didn't work.

Still gives the same error message:

Error in val.surv(f.1, newdata = test1["age"], u = 10) :
   dims [product 1797] do not match the length of object [2496]
In addition: Warning message:
In est.surv + S[, 1] :
   longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length



As I said (and you did
not act  upon):

The fundamental thing you are doing wrong for q1  is failing to  
unambiguously describe the test object.


I said it was a guess. Now stop wasting our time and offer what is  
needed.


--david.


Salvo

From: David Winsemius 

Cc: "r-help@R-project.org" 
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: [R] val.surv


On Aug 20, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Salvo Mac wrote:


   Dear R-users,

I  have two questions regarding

validation and calibration of Survival regression models.


1.  I am trying to calibrate and validate a cox model using  
val.surv.

here is my code:
   f.1<-cph(Surv(time,event)~age, x=T, y=T, data=train)
   test1<-test[,"age"]
   val.surv(f.1, newdata=data.frame(test1), u=10)

   but I get an error message:

   Error in val.surv(f.1, newdata = data.frame(testi), u = 10) :
dims [product 1797] do not match the length of object [2496]
   In addition: Warning message:
In est.surv + S[, 1] :
longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length

   I ran the example in the r-documentation but couldn't extract   
dxy from result.


   What am I doing wrong?


The fundamental thing you are doing wrong for q1  is failing to  
unambiguously describe the test object. I would think that if test  
were a dataframe then wrapping data.frame around a vector might not  
get it named correctly as 'age'. You might try newdata=  
test['age']. Just a guess.




   2.  In validate and calibrate cph functions. If it is frailty  
fit, does the the bootstrap resample clusters or just individuals


The code above appears to be dependent on the rms package. The  
frailty function is part of the underlying survival package and I  
do not see it mentioned in the index for Harrell's RMS text. You  
will probably need to wait until Frank comes across this. He is  
generally very good about correction my errors and knowledge gaps.








David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

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Re: [R] val.surv

2011-08-21 Thread Salvo Mac
 I've   attached a sample of the data sets, this is my full code.

#R 2.13
#library(survival)
#library(Hmisc)
#library(splines)
library(rms)
train<-as.data.frame( train<-read.csv("G:\\train.txt", header=T, sep="\t"))
test<-as.data.frame( test<-read.table("G:\\test.txt", header=T, sep="\t"))
f.1<-cph(Surv(time,event)~age, x=T, y=T,surv=T, data=train)
val.surv(f.1, newdata=test, u=10)


#plot(calibrate(f.1, u=30, B=20))






From: David Winsemius 
To: Salvo Mac 
Cc: "r-help@R-project.org" 
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 5:29 AM
Subject: Re: [R] val.surv


On Aug 20, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Salvo Mac wrote:

> The test and train are like split data sets, contain similar variables but 
> from different countries so the two sets are somehow  independent. And yes it 
> is a data frame.

What is a data.frame? test and train may be dataframes, but test[, "age"] is 
not a dataframe.

> So I extracted age, time and event.

Code? The code you offered before would have created a newdata object (yes, a 
data.frame) with a single column bearing the same name as the vector argument 
, "test1". Not named "age". Try it. do str on such an object:

str(dataframe(test1))


> So test is data frame,(age, time, event). does that suffice?

It certainly does not allow me to reproduce the error you got (which I still 
think is probably related to the structure of your argument to newdata.)

That's all I can say without data and code.

--David.


> 
> 
> 
> ________
> From: David Winsemius 
> 
> Cc: "r-help@R-project.org" 
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 3:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [R] val.surv
> 
> 
> On Aug 20, 2011, at 8:08 PM, Salvo Mac wrote:
> 
>> Thanks David
>> 
>> However, I tried your trick on val.surv with newdata=test['age'] but still 
>> didn't work.
>> Still gives the same error message:
>> 
>> Error in val.surv(f.1, newdata = test1["age"], u = 10) :
>>    dims [product 1797] do not match the length of object [2496]
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In est.surv + S[, 1] :
>>    longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length
>> 
> 
> As I said (and you did
> not act  upon):
> 
> The fundamental thing you are doing wrong for q1  is failing to unambiguously 
> describe the test object.
> 
> I said it was a guess. Now stop wasting our time and offer what is needed.
> 
> --david.
>> 
>> Salvo
>> 
>> From: David Winsemius 
>> 
>> Cc: "r-help@R-project.org" 
>> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 12:55 AM
>> Subject: Re: [R] val.surv
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 20, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Salvo Mac wrote:
>> 
>>>    Dear R-users,
>>> 
>>> I  have two questions regarding
> validation and calibration of Survival regression models.
>>> 
>>> 1.  I am trying to calibrate and validate a cox model using val.surv.
>>> here is my code:
>>>    f.1<-cph(Surv(time,event)~age, x=T, y=T, data=train)
>>>    test1<-test[,"age"]
>>>    val.surv(f.1, newdata=data.frame(test1), u=10)
>>> 
>>>    but I get an error message:
>>> 
>>>    Error in val.surv(f.1, newdata = data.frame(testi), u = 10) :
>>>     dims [product 1797] do not match the length of object [2496]
>>>    In addition: Warning message:
>>> In est.surv + S[, 1] :
>>>     longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length
>>> 
>>>    I ran the example in the r-documentation but couldn't extract  dxy from 
>>>result.
>>> 
>>>    What am I doing wrong?
>> 
>> The fundamental thing you are doing wrong for q1  is failing to 
>> unambiguously describe the test object. I would think that if test were a 
>> dataframe then wrapping data.frame around a vector might not get it named 
>> correctly as 'age'. You might try newdata= test['age']. Just a guess.
>> 
>>> 
>>>    2.  In validate and calibrate cph functions. If it is frailty fit, does 
>>>the the bootstrap resample clusters or just individuals
>> 
>> The code above appears to be dependent on the rms package. The frailty 
>> function is part of the underlying survival package and I do not see it 
>> mentioned in the index for Harrell's RMS text. You will probably need to 
>> wait until Frank comes across this. He is generally very good about 
>> correction my errors and knowledge gaps.
>> 
>>> 
>> 

David Winsem

Re: [R] val.surv

2011-08-21 Thread David Winsemius


On Aug 21, 2011, at 7:03 AM, Salvo Mac wrote:


 I've   attached a sample of the data sets, this is my full code.

#R 2.13
#library(survival)
#library(Hmisc)
#library(splines)
library(rms)
train<-as.data.frame( train<-read.csv("G:\\train.txt", header=T,  
sep="\t"))
test<-as.data.frame( test<-read.table("G:\\test.txt", header=T,  
sep="\t"))

f.1<-cph(Surv(time,event)~age, x=T, y=T,surv=T, data=train)
val.surv(f.1, newdata=test, u=10)


#plot(calibrate(f.1, u=30, B=20))


Salvo;

I'm not sure where the error is coming from (although I will share my  
speculation below). I modified your code somewhat. I was under the  
impression that read.csv had sep="," hardcoded and the read.csv( ...  
seo="\t") would throw and error. The as.data.fame around either of the  
read.* statements is completely unnecessary:


Input code:
train<-read.table("~/train.txt", header=T, sep="\t")
 test<-read.table("~/test.txt", header=T, sep="\t")

I thought the  newdata=test argument should succeed, but it does throw  
the error that you report:


 f.1<-cph(Surv(time,event)~age, x=T, y=T,surv=T, data=train)
 val.surv(f.1, newdata=test, u=10)
Error in val.surv(f.1, newdata = test, u = 10) :
  dims [product 210] do not match the length of object [314]
In addition: Warning message:
In est.surv + S[, 1] :
  longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length

I tried sampling from test with replacement to generate a dataframe of  
equal extent and with that object I do not get the same errors:


> extend <- test[sample(1:nrow(test), 314, replace=TRUE), ]
>  f.1<-cph(Surv(time,event)~age, x=T, y=T,surv=T, data=train)
> val.surv(f.1, newdata=extend, u=10)

Validation of Predicted Survival at Time= 10n= 314 , events= 64

hare fit:

dim A/D   loglik   AICpenalty
minmax
  1 Add   -485.24976.22  271.33 Inf
  2 Del   -349.57710.645.67  271.33
  3 Del   -346.74710.720.965.67
  4 Del   -346.26715.510.010.96
  5 Add   -346.25721.250.000.01

the present optimal number of dimensions is 2.
penalty(AIC) was 5.75, the default (BIC), would have been 5.75.

  dim1   dim2   betaSE Wald
Constant -10   0.55  -18.14
Time43  0.15  0.015   10.30

Function used to transform predictions:
function (p)  log(-log(p))

Mean absolute error in predicted probabilities: 0.0331
0.9 Quantile of absolute errors   : 0.0613

I have also tried looking at the code and adding   
options(error=utils::recover) to see if I can identify the point where  
the length mismatch is being generated, (but I am NOT an ace  
debugger). I can see that est.surv is created. I can also get the  
predict(fit, newdata, type = "lp") call to run with train and give  
sensible numbers. You did not create (or at least say so) a datadist.  
I tried that when I saw that "lim" was dependent on datadist limits.


ddT <- datadist(train); options(datadist="ddT")

Seeing the usehare was set to TRUE; I submitted the code section that  
was intended for that situation to a browser session and the the first  
line throws the error that I see at the console:


Enter a frame number, or 0 to exit

1: val.surv(f.1, newdata = test, u = 10)

Selection: 1
Called from: top level
Browse[1]> i <- !is.na(est.surv + S[, 1] + S[, 2])
Error during wrapup: dims [product 210] do not match the length of  
object [314]


As I read this that line is supposed to create an index of valid rows  
in newdata and the fitted values but is failing in the situation where  
the nrows of the newdata does not match that of the fit.


At this point one option might be trying to generate a structure that  
matches the val.surv output by going through the code and building it  
up bit by bit:


 w <- structure(list(harefit = f, p = est.surv, actual = actual,
pseq = pseq, actualseq = actualseq, u = u, fun = fun,
n = nrow(S), d = sum(S[, 2]), units = units), class =  
"val.survh")

return(w)

But a much better option would be to report the error to Frank  
Harrell. I'm copying him since I think your .txt files probably  
reached the list as well as my mailbox.


--
David.








From: David Winsemius 
To: Salvo Mac 
Cc: "r-help@R-project.org" 
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 5:29 AM
Subject: Re: [R] val.surv


On Aug 20, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Salvo Mac wrote:

The test and train are like split data sets, contain similar  
variables but from different countries so the two sets are somehow   
independent. And yes it is a data frame.


What is a data.frame? test and train may be dataframes, but test[,  
"age"] is not a dataframe.



So I extra

Re: [R] val.surv

2011-08-21 Thread Frank Harrell
I welcome a trivial self-contained set of code, not using frailties, that
generates its own data and which fails.  Then I'll debug.
Frank

David Winsemius wrote:
> 
> On Aug 21, 2011, at 7:03 AM, Salvo Mac wrote:
> 
>>  I've   attached a sample of the data sets, this is my full code.
>>
>> #R 2.13
>> #library(survival)
>> #library(Hmisc)
>> #library(splines)
>> library(rms)
>> train<-as.data.frame( train<-read.csv("G:\\train.txt", header=T,  
>> sep="\t"))
>> test<-as.data.frame( test<-read.table("G:\\test.txt", header=T,  
>> sep="\t"))
>> f.1<-cph(Surv(time,event)~age, x=T, y=T,surv=T, data=train)
>> val.surv(f.1, newdata=test, u=10)
>>
>>
>> #plot(calibrate(f.1, u=30, B=20))
> 
> Salvo;
> 
> I'm not sure where the error is coming from (although I will share my  
> speculation below). I modified your code somewhat. I was under the  
> impression that read.csv had sep="," hardcoded and the read.csv( ...  
> seo="\t") would throw and error. The as.data.fame around either of the  
> read.* statements is completely unnecessary:
> 
> Input code:
> train<-read.table("~/train.txt", header=T, sep="\t")
>   test<-read.table("~/test.txt", header=T, sep="\t")
> 
> I thought the  newdata=test argument should succeed, but it does throw  
> the error that you report:
> 
>   f.1<-cph(Surv(time,event)~age, x=T, y=T,surv=T, data=train)
>   val.surv(f.1, newdata=test, u=10)
> Error in val.surv(f.1, newdata = test, u = 10) :
>dims [product 210] do not match the length of object [314]
> In addition: Warning message:
> In est.surv + S[, 1] :
>longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length
> 
> I tried sampling from test with replacement to generate a dataframe of  
> equal extent and with that object I do not get the same errors:
> 
>  > extend <- test[sample(1:nrow(test), 314, replace=TRUE), ]
>  >  f.1<-cph(Surv(time,event)~age, x=T, y=T,surv=T, data=train)
>  > val.surv(f.1, newdata=extend, u=10)
> 
> Validation of Predicted Survival at Time= 10  n= 314 , events= 64
> 
> hare fit:
> 
> dim A/D   loglik   AICpenalty
>  minmax
>1 Add   -485.24976.22  271.33 Inf
>2 Del   -349.57710.645.67  271.33
>3 Del   -346.74710.720.965.67
>4 Del   -346.26715.510.010.96
>5 Add   -346.25721.250.000.01
> 
> the present optimal number of dimensions is 2.
> penalty(AIC) was 5.75, the default (BIC), would have been 5.75.
> 
>dim1   dim2   betaSE Wald
> Constant -10   0.55  -18.14
> Time43  0.15  0.015   10.30
> 
> Function used to transform predictions:
> function (p)  log(-log(p))
> 
> Mean absolute error in predicted probabilities: 0.0331
> 0.9 Quantile of absolute errors   : 0.0613
> 
> I have also tried looking at the code and adding   
> options(error=utils::recover) to see if I can identify the point where  
> the length mismatch is being generated, (but I am NOT an ace  
> debugger). I can see that est.surv is created. I can also get the  
> predict(fit, newdata, type = "lp") call to run with train and give  
> sensible numbers. You did not create (or at least say so) a datadist.  
> I tried that when I saw that "lim" was dependent on datadist limits.
> 
> ddT <- datadist(train); options(datadist="ddT")
> 
> Seeing the usehare was set to TRUE; I submitted the code section that  
> was intended for that situation to a browser session and the the first  
> line throws the error that I see at the console:
> 
> Enter a frame number, or 0 to exit
> 
> 1: val.surv(f.1, newdata = test, u = 10)
> 
> Selection: 1
> Called from: top level
> Browse[1]> i <- !is.na(est.surv + S[, 1] + S[, 2])
> Error during wrapup: dims [product 210] do not match the length of  
> object [314]
> 
> As I read this that line is supposed to create an index of valid rows  
> in newdata and the fitted values but is failing in the situation where  
> the nrows of the newdata does not match that of the fit.
> 
> At this point one option might be trying to generate a structure that  
> matches the val.surv output by going through the code and building it  
> up bit by bit:
> 
>   w <- structure(list(harefit = f, p = est.surv, actual = actual,
>  pseq = pseq, actualseq = actualseq, u = u, fun = fun,
>  n = nrow(S), d = sum(S[, 2]),