The following seems to be an bug in prcomp(): > test <- ts( matrix( c(NA, 2:5, NA, 7:10), 5, 2)) > test Time Series: Start = 1 End = 5 Frequency = 1 Series 1 Series 2 1 NA NA 2 2 7 3 3 8 4 4 9 5 5 10 > prcomp(test, scale.=TRUE, na.action=na.omit) Erro en svd(x, nu = 0) : infinite or missing values in 'x' > prcomp(na.omit(test), scale.=TRUE, na.action=na.omit) Standard deviations: [1] 1.414214e+00 3.726778e-17
Rotation: PC1 PC2 Series 1 0.7071068 -0.7071068 Series 2 0.7071068 0.7071068 > note that > is.matrix(test) [1] TRUE This is R2.3.1 pre-compiled binary from CRAN on windows XP. > sessionInfo() Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) i386-pc-mingw32 attached base packages: [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" "base" Kjetil ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel