Please update to the latest snapshot R version 2.5.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-03-05 r40816) where all is well,
Thibaut Jombart wrote: > Dear list, > > I may have found a bug in model.frame.default (called by the lm function). > The problem arises in my R dev version but not in my R 2.4.0. > Here is my config : > > > version > > _ > platform > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > arch > x86_64 > os > linux-gnu > system x86_64, > linux-gnu > status Under development > (unstable) > major > 2 > minor > 5.0 > year > 2007 > month > 03 > day > 04 > svn rev > 40813 > language > R > version.string R version 2.5.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-03-04 > r40813) > > Now a simple example to (hopefully) reproduce the bug (after a > rm(list=ls())): > > > dat=data.frame(y=rnorm(10),x1=runif(10),x2=runif(10)) > > weights=1:10/(sum(1:10)) > > form <- as.formula("y~x1+x2") > # here is the error > > lm(form,data=dat,weights=weights) > Erreur dans model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras, > extranames, : > type (closure) incorrect pour la variable '(weights)' > > (sorry, error message is in French) > > As I said, these commands works using R.2.4.0 (same machine, same OS). > Moreover, the following commands work: > > temp=weights > > lm(form,data=dat,weights=temp) > > This currently seems to cause a check fail in the ade4 package. I tried > to find out where the bug came from: all I found is the (potential) bug > comes from model.frame.default, and more precisely: > debug: data <- .Internal(model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, > varnames, > extras, extranames, subset, na.action)) > Browse[1]> > Erreur dans model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras, > extranames, : > type (closure) incorrect pour la variable '(weights)' > > I couldn't go further because of the .Internal. I tried to googlise > this, but I found no such problem reported recently. > > Can anyone tell if this is actually a bug? (In case not, please tell me > where I got wrong). > > Regards, > > Thibaut. > -- Robert Gentleman, PhD Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M2-B876 PO Box 19024 Seattle, Washington 98109-1024 206-667-7700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel