NAs in "cor"? (was: Re: [R] (no subject))

Spencer Graves spencer.graves at pdf.com
Wed Mar 16 23:04:51 CET 2005


      "?cor" revealed that the "cor" function has an argument "use" with 
a default of "all.obs" and options of "complete.obs"' or 
'"pairwise.complete.obs".  Either of these other two should get you past 
this error message. 

      hope this helps.
      spencer graves
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Brett Stansfield wrote:

>Dear R
>I'm trying to do a correlation matrix for some variables I have.
>Unfortunately there are some NA entries for some of the variables 
>I tried the following
>
>cor(sleep[c("logbw", "logbrw", "SlowSleep", "ParaSleep", "loglife",
>"loggest")])
>
>but it told me
>Error in cor(sleep[c("logbw", "logbrw", "SlowSleep", "ParaSleep", "loglife",
>: 
>        missing observations in cov/cor
>
>How can I get R to conduct a correlation matrix for this data set??
>
>brett
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