[R] Cryptic error from stargazer

[Ashim Kapoor]

Dear All,

I had done an automatic upgrade of my Debian 10  system which had also
upgraded R.

I reinstalled the stargazer package and the error went away.

Query : Do I need to reinstall all packages with each upgrade of R ?

Best,
Ashim

On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 11:11 AM Ashim Kapoor <ashimkapoor using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Here is my reproducible example:
>
> > library(stargazer)
>
> Please cite as:
>
>  Hlavac, Marek (2018). stargazer: Well-Formatted Regression and
> Summary Statistics Tables.
>  R package version 5.2.2. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=stargazer
>
> > x1=1:1000 ; y = 2 * x1+ rnorm(1000)
> > stargazer(lm(y~x1))
> Error in (.format.s.statistics.list != "p25") &&
> (.format.s.statistics.list !=  :
>   'length = 7' in coercion to 'logical(1)'
>
> The error returned is cryptic and I am not able to google and find the solution.
>
> Here is my sessionInfo:
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 4.3.0 (2023-04-21)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
>
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas/libblas.so.3
> LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenblasp-r0.3.5.so;  LAPACK version 3.8.0
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_IN       LC_NUMERIC=C         LC_TIME=en_IN
>  [4] LC_COLLATE=en_IN     LC_MONETARY=en_IN    LC_MESSAGES=en_IN
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_IN       LC_NAME=C            LC_ADDRESS=C
> [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C       LC_MEASUREMENT=en_IN LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> time zone: Asia/Kolkata
> tzcode source: system (glibc)
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] stargazer_5.2.2
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_4.3.0
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Ashim