I have a data set where I want the correlations between 2 variables
conditional on a students grade level.
This code works just fine.
by(tmp[,c('mtsc07', 'DCBASmathscoreSPRING')], tmp$Grade, cor,
use='complete', method='pearson')
However, this generates an error
by(tmp[,c('mtsc07', 'DCBASmathscoreSPRING')], tmp$Grade, cor,
use='complete', method='spearman')
Error in FUN(data[x, ], ...) : 'x' is empty
I can subset the data by grade and compute spearman rho as
tmp5 <- subset(tmp, Grade == 5)
cor(tmp5[,c('mtsc07', 'DCBASmathcountSPRING')], use='complete',
method='spearman')
But doing this iteratively is inefficient.
I don't see anything in the help man for by() or cor() that tells me
what the problem is. I might be missing it though. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Harold
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23)
i386-pc-mingw32
locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets"
"methods" "base"
other attached packages:
lattice
"0.15-4"
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