Re: [R] Subsetting problem

2007-07-12 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Massimo, Professor Ripley has given you your answer. It may help you further to know that factor levels aren't automatically dropped when you subset a data set; you have to do it manually. Some time ago I scrounged the following command from Andy Liaw's randomForest package: it removes all

[R] Subsetting problem

2007-07-11 Thread Cressoni, Massimo (NIH/NHLBI) [F]
I need to perform the Exact Wilcoxon Mann-Whitney on a subset of my database. Assuming that IPPO is my data frame and IPPOBIS is the subset my variable still have 3 different levels and the function wilcox_test (package coin) does not accept it. I do not know how to overcome this problem. ippo -

Re: [R] Subsetting problem

2007-07-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You have three levels of factor 'ippo' and data on two. That is not a two-sample problem, as the error message says. Try IPPOBIS$ippo - IPPOBIS$ippo[drop=TRUE] And please use an informative subject line (see the posting guide). On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Cressoni, Massimo (NIH/NHLBI) [F] wrote: I