[R] princomp error

[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:
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> Error in cov.wt(z) : 'x' must contain finite values only
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> Where am I going wrong?
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> Ross
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