[R] Amelia error

Gaurav Sood gsood07 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 20:18:31 CEST 2012


Using: Amelia::amelia

R version: 2.15
OS: Windows 7 Enterprise

data = National Election Studies (cross-sectional); mostly ordinal
variables, some nominal

summary(ad04)

   insurance          jobs          services           ss            women
 Min.   :1.000   Min.   :1.000   Min.   :1.000   Min.   :1.000   Min.   :1.00
 1st Qu.:2.000   1st Qu.:3.000   1st Qu.:2.000   1st Qu.:1.000   1st Qu.:1.00
 Median :4.000   Median :4.000   Median :3.000   Median :1.000   Median :1.00
 Mean   :3.656   Mean   :4.207   Mean   :3.478   Mean   :1.408   Mean   :1.92
 3rd Qu.:5.000   3rd Qu.:6.000   3rd Qu.:4.000   3rd Qu.:2.000   3rd Qu.:2.00
 Max.   :7.000   Max.   :7.000   Max.   :7.000   Max.   :3.000   Max.   :7.00
 NA's   :97      NA's   :105     NA's   :146     NA's   :21      NA's   :52

aout04 <- amelia(ad04,noms=c("race","south","gender","demrep"), m=5)
Error in if (sum(non.vary == 0)) { :
  argument is not interpretable as logical
In addition: Warning message:
In FUN(X[[34L]], ...) : NAs introduced by coercion


On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you mean the Amelia package? Or a function named Amelia()?
>
> What is your OS and version of R and package?
>
> What are the commands you are using?
>
> What do your data look like?
>
> Can you provide a reproducible example?
>
> Did you read the posting guide?
>
> Your problem doesn't "seem like a bug" rather than user error unless
> we know a whole lot more about it.
>
> Sarah
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Gaurav Sood <gsood07 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Encountering the following error using Amelia -
>>
>> Error in if (sum(non.vary == 0)) { :
>>  argument is not interpretable as logical
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In FUN(X[[34L]], ...) : NAs introduced by coercion
>>
>> Seems like a bug.
>>
>
> --
> Sarah Goslee
> http://www.functionaldiversity.org



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