[R] cat in a subroutine

[Erin Hodgess]

All right.  Are these lines of code part of a larger function, please?  Is
that function possibly calling a loop, please?

Thanks,
Erin

On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 1:49 AM Steven T. Yen <styen using ntu.edu.tw> wrote:

> Thanks Erin.
>
> No. Removing the second line (so that cat simply prints something else),
>
> cat("\nMarginal and Discrete Effects of Gen Ordered Logit / Probit
> Probabilities")
> #    "\n\nlogistic =",logistic)
>
> I get yet another nonsense:
>
> Error in cat("\nMarginal and Discrete Effects of Gen Ordered Logit /
> Probit Probabilities") :
>   argument "j" is missing, with no default
> >
> On 10/13/2022 3:37 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote:
>
> Hi Steven:
>
> Do you have a variable called logistic, please?  I think that might be the
> culprit.
>
> Thanks,
> Erin
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 1:35 AM Steven T. Yen <styen using ntu.edu.tw> wrote:
>
>> I have had an issue with printing (with cat) in a subroutine for which I
>> do not have a applicable example, but I am still hoping to get some
>> help. In the following, the first block of code works fine.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> t<-abs(me)/se; p<-2*(1-pt(t,nrow(x)))
>> sig<-my.sig.levels(p)
>> out<-data.frame(round(cbind(me,se,t,p),digits)); out<-cbind(out,sig)
>> rownames(out)<-names(me)
>> colnames(out)<-c("est","se","t","p","sig")
>> j<-grep(".one\\b",rownames(out))
>> out<-out[-j,]
>> return(out)
>> }
>>
>> But as soon as I insert lines to print (cat) soething simple, it spits
>> out message that appears to be nonsence (unrelated). Any idea. Please
>> help. Thanks.
>>
>> t<-abs(me)/se; p<-2*(1-pt(t,nrow(x)))
>> sig<-my.sig.levels(p)
>> out<-data.frame(round(cbind(me,se,t,p),digits)); out<-cbind(out,sig)
>> rownames(out)<-names(me)
>> colnames(out)<-c("est","se","t","p","sig")
>> cat("\nMarginal and Discrete Effects of Gen Ordered Logit / Probit
>> Probabilities",
>>      "\n\nlogistic =",logistic)
>> j<-grep(".one\\b",rownames(out))
>> out<-out[-j,]
>> return(out)
>> }
>>
>> In this particular case, the error message was as follows:
>>
>> Error in cat("\nMarginal and Discrete Effects of Gen Ordered Logit /
>> Probit Probabilities",  :
>>    unused argument (logistic)
>>
>> I have printed this way in numerous routines without problem and do not
>> see why this is happending.
>>
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