Re: [R] princomp error

2007-07-27 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
You probably got some missing or undefined values.

Either eyeball the data or use sum(is.na(x)), sum(is.nan(x)), 
sum(is.infinite(x)) to find out if you have such data. You may want to 
use which() to find out where they are.

Regards, Adai


Bricklemyer, Ross S wrote:
 I am attempting to run principal components analysis on a dataset of
 spectral reflectance (6 decimal places).  I imported the data using
 read.table and there are both column and row headers.  When I run
 princomp I receive the following error:
 
  
 
 Error in cov.wt(z) : 'x' must contain finite values only
 
  
 
 Where am I going wrong?
 
  
 
 Ross
 
  
 
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[R] princomp error

2007-07-26 Thread Bricklemyer, Ross S
I am attempting to run principal components analysis on a dataset of
spectral reflectance (6 decimal places).  I imported the data using
read.table and there are both column and row headers.  When I run
princomp I receive the following error:

 

Error in cov.wt(z) : 'x' must contain finite values only

 

Where am I going wrong?

 

Ross

 

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Ross Bricklemyer
Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences
Washington State University
291D Johnson Hall
PO Box 646420
Pullman, WA 99164-6420
Work: 509.335.3661
Cell/Home: 406.570.8576
Fax: 509.335.8674
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]







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