Hi all,
Just noticed that the error that arises when calling t.test() with factors
could be a bit clearer:
> t.test(factor(c(3,1,2,4,3,5,4,5)), factor(c(2,1,2,3,4,5)))
Error in var(x) : Calling var(x) on a factor x is defunct.
Use something like 'all(duplicated(x)[-1L])' to test for a constant vector.
In addition: Warning message:
In mean.default(x) :
argument is not numeric or logical: returning NA
Obviously, using factors as input is nonsense, but this might happen on
accident and then the error message could be a bit more on point. Similar for
aov():
> aov(factor(c(3,1,2,4,3,5,4,5)) ~ factor(c(2,1,2,2,2,1,2,1)))
Call:
aov(formula = factor(c(3, 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 4, 5)) ~ factor(c(2,
1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1)))
Error in levels(x)[x] :
only 0's may be mixed with negative subscripts
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In model.response(mf, "numeric") :
using type = "numeric" with a factor response will be ignored
2: In Ops.factor(y, z$residuals) : '-' not meaningful for factors
Not a big deal and trying to catch all of the silly things users may do is of
course impossible, but for this one adding a check that the (response) variable
is actually numeric could be useful.
Best,
Wolfgang
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