[R] the Surv function

[Christos Hatzis]

Try using the following (without naming the arguments) - it should work.

Surv(fup, status)

I think what is happening is that if you use one or two arguments (unnamed),
Surv assumes that you have right-censored data, with the first argument
being time and the second being status.  By specifying 'event' as you did,
Surv assumes that you have 3 arguments of "type"=counting and it is looking
for the ending time required by the counting data format and this is why you
got the error.

If you are not afraid of R code, type Surv (without the parentheses) to see
the code behind the function.

-Christos

Christos Hatzis, Ph.D.
Nuvera Biosciences, Inc.
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Suite 5350
Woburn, MA 01801
Tel: 781-938-3830
www.nuverabio.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Jennifer Dillon
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:16 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] the Surv function
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to do a simple survival analysis on some data, and 
> I'm having the following problem (here's my code and the 
> error message):
> 
> out <- Surv(fup,event=status)
> Error in Surv(fup, event = status) : argument "time2" is 
> missing, with no default
> 
> >From reading the documentation, it seems that I should be able to 
> >simply
> write:  Surv(time1, event)  if my data is right-censored, which it is.
> Help!
> 
> Thanks a million,
> 
> Jen
> 
> 
> 
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