[R] Error: (list) object cannot be coerced to type double; on running the following code in R ver 3.1.2

[Mark Sharp]

Aditya,

Please use plan text. HTML is not handled correctly.

Within your last statement it appears you are trying to find the sum of a logical vector - is.na(). This is what is causing the error.

My guess is that you want to count the number of elements in the second column that are not NA values. You probably want the following for your last line. (See ?sum).

nummk <- length(vbm[ !is.na(vbm[ , 2], 2])
## or
nummk <- nrow(vbm[!is.na(vbm[ , 2], ])

## The is.na(vbm[ ,2]) returns a logical vector (for example c(FALSE, TRUE, TRUE))

Mark

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On Nov 11, 2014, at 3:05 AM, Aditya Singh wrote:

setwd("C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Desktop/Coursera/specdata/specdata")temp=list.files(pattern="*.csv")myfiles=lapply(temp,read.delim)summk=0nummk=0for (i in 1:10) {  vb=data.frame(myfiles[i])  vbm=as.double(vb)  summk=sum(vbm[,2])  nummk=length(vbm[,2]) - sum(is.na(vbm[,2]))}
Aditya

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