[R] Error running lda example from Help File (MASS library )

Ronggui Huang ronggui.huang at gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 08:06:23 CET 2009


I don't run into any problem when runing examples from lda help file.

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.0 Patched (2009-11-09 r50375)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Chinese_People's Republic of China.936
[2] LC_CTYPE=Chinese_People's Republic of China.936
[3] LC_MONETARY=Chinese_People's Republic of China.936
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Chinese_People's Republic of China.936

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] MASS_7.3-3     ASRR_0.0-1     ASAtable_0.0-1 QCA3_0.0-3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] car_1.2-16   tools_2.10.0



2009/11/15 Greg Riddick <riddickgp at mail.nih.gov>:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to run lda() from the MASS library but the Help example generates
> the
> following error:
>
>
> #Code from example in lda Help file
>
>
>
> # Resulting Error
>
>>Error in if (targetlist[i] == stringname) { : argument is of length zero
>
>
> My Current R Installation:
> MacOSX: 10.5.8
> R: 2.10.0
>
>
>
>
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