[R] Cryptic error from stargazer

[Ashim Kapoor]

Dear Enrico,

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> library(stargazer)

Please cite as:

 Hlavac, Marek (2022). stargazer: Well-Formatted Regression and
Summary Statistics Tables.
 R package version 5.2.3. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=stargazer

>
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Yes I do think I now have 5.2.3

Many thanks,
Ashim


On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 1:13 PM Enrico Schumann <es using enricoschumann.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 08 Jun 2023, Ashim Kapoor writes:
>
> > 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
>
> Your session info says "stargazer 5.2.2".  What version do
> you have now?  CRAN has 5.2.3. It seems likely to me that
>
>   i) with R 4.3-0, certain warnings in the package have
>      become errors (the NEWS file for R 4.3-0,
>      https://cloud.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.html ,
>      has a prominent first item about using && and errors.)
>
> and
>
>  ii) the package maintainer fixed those warnings/errors in 5.2.3.
>
> kind regards
>     Enrico
>
>
> > 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
> >
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> Enrico Schumann
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