It's not immediately evident to me just looking at this, but I do have one suggestion. Run this again and see if you get the same error and if you do, use this command to help you find where -
traceback() traceback is extremely helpful when you are debugging these things, it will go through your function and find where your function crashed if not why exactly. Give it a try. A -- Adrienne Wootten Graduate Research Assistant State Climate Office of North Carolina Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:32 AM, wangwallace <talentt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was running a sampling syntax based on a data frame (ago) of 160 rows and > 25 columns. Below are the column names: > >> names(ago) > [1] "SubID" "AGR1" "AGR2" "AGR3" "AGR4" "AGR5" "AGR6" "AGR7" > "AGR8" > [10] "AGR9" "AGR10" "WAGR1" "WAGR2" "WAGR3" "WAGR4" "WAGR5" "WAGR6" > "WAGR7" > [19] "WAGR8" "WAGR9" "WAGR10" "ocbi" "ocbo" "cwbi" "cwbo" > >> dim(ago) > [1] 160 25 > > Here below is the syntax: > >> crossed1<-function(df){ > + s1<-df[sample(nrow(df),16,replace=F),] > + s2<-t(apply(s1[,2:11],1,sample,10)) > + s2<-data.frame(s2) > + s3<-df[-s1$SubID,] > + ind<-t(replicate(nrow(s3),sample(10))) > + s4<-matrix(nrow=nrow(s3),ncol=10) > + rownames(s4)<-rownames(s3) > + s4<-data.frame(s4) > + for(i in seq(nrow(s3))){ > + s4[i,1]<-s3[i,1+ind[i,1]] > + s4[i,2:10]<-s3[i,11+ind[i,2:10]] > + } > + colnames(s2)<-colnames(s4) > + rbind(s2,s4)[order(as.numeric(rownames(rbind(s2,s4)))),] > + } >> result1<-vector("list",1000) >> for(i in 1:1000)result1[[i]]<-crossed1(ago) > > These syntaxes worked out perfectly. I successfully drew 1000 random > samples. > I applied the syntax above to another data set called agr, which basically > has the same column names: > >> names(agr) > [1] "SubID" "AGR1" "AGR2" "AGR3" "AGR4" "AGR5" "AGR6" "AGR7" > "AGR8" > [10] "AGR9" "AGR10" "WAGR1" "WAGR2" "WAGR3" "WAGR4" "WAGR5" "WAGR6" > "WAGR7" > [19] "WAGR8" "WAGR9" "WAGR10" "ocbi" "ocbo" "cwbi" "cwbo" > > agr and ago are basically the same except that agr has more rows than ago: > >> dim(agr) > [1] 300 25 > > here below is the same syntax I've used for agr: > >> crossed1<-function(df){ > + s1<-df[sample(nrow(df),30,replace=F),] # note I have changed 16 to 30 > + s2<-t(apply(s1[,2:11],1,sample,10)) > + s2<-data.frame(s2) > + s3<-df[-s1$SubID,] > + ind<-t(replicate(nrow(s3),sample(10))) > + s4<-matrix(nrow=nrow(s3),ncol=10) > + rownames(s4)<-rownames(s3) > + s4<-data.frame(s4) > + for(i in seq(nrow(s3))){ > + s4[i,1]<-s3[i,1+ind[i,1]] > + s4[i,2:10]<-s3[i,11+ind[i,2:10]] > + } > + colnames(s2)<-colnames(s4) > + rbind(s2,s4)[order(as.numeric(rownames(rbind(s2,s4)))),] > + } >> result1<-vector("list",1000) >> for(i in 1:1000)result1[[i]]<-crossed1(agr) > Error in xj[i] : only 0's may be mixed with negative subscripts > > However, I got an error message shown above. It is kinda weird. Could > anybody please explain what I've did wrong? Many thanks in advance!! :) > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/error-message-tp3223412p3223412.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.