[R] mean on a table

Farrel Buchinsky fjbuch at gmail.com
Fri Jan 12 05:11:00 CET 2007


Not that I know of.
When I get back to the office I will check it out.
I certainly do not recall having created one.
I wonder if a library I am working with maybe created a mean function.
How do I figure out if I have a loose cannon mean function on the run
in my system?

On 1/11/07, Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
> Farrel Buchinsky wrote:
> > Please suggest areas that I should troubleshoot. This command used to
> > give me an answer and now it gives me an error.
> >
> >> mean(no.genot,na.rm=T)
> >>
> > Error in tapply(x, by, sum, na.rm = TRUE) :
> >         arguments must have same length
> > I tried removing the na.rm=T)
> >
> >> mean(no.genot)
> >>
> > Error in `names<-.default`(`*tmp*`, value = c("by.1", "by.0")) :
> >         attempt to set an attribute on NULL
> >
> > The structure of my table is as follows.
> >
> >> str(no.genot)
> >>
> >  table [, 1:467] 0.000 0.261 0.315 0.274 0.349 ...
> >  - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 1
> >   ..$ : chr [1:467] "NC" "RP138" "RP139" "RP140" ...
> >
> > Strangely enough
> >
> >> mean(no.genot[1:467])
> >>
> > [1] 0.2426167
> >
> > That seems to work.
> >
> Have you perhaps a stray mean() or mean.table() function lying around?
>
> Doesn't look like it would normally happen:
>
>  > tb <- as.table(as.double(1:10))
>  > str(tb)
>  table [, 1:10] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
>  - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 1
>  ..$ : chr [1:10] "A" "B" "C" "D" ...
>  > mean(tb)
> [1] 5.5
>
>
>
>


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