Dear Max, So Rich's guess that you had a factor level with only one observation (and consequently an empty cell in the two-way table of means) proved correct. I'll modify the plotMeans() function so that it prints a more informative message under this circumstance.
Regards, John -------------------------------- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > project.org] On Behalf Of Max > Sent: March-26-08 10:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R] Rcmder Error > > John and Rich, > > Thankyou for the suggestion of I've gone over my data and found that > one of the text values had an extra space in it. Error fixed. It's good > to know what the error means, now if I encounter it again I don't need > to ask about it here. > > Thanks again! > > -Max > > It happens that John Fox formulated : > > Dear Max, > > > > As Rich Heiberger has suggested, it's difficult to diagnose the error > > without the data, and it's especially curious that this previously > worked (I > > assume from your message with the same data) and doesn't now. > > > > Regards, > > John > > > > -------------------------------- > > John Fox, Professor > > Department of Sociology > > McMaster University > > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 > > 905-525-9140x23604 > > http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> project.org] On Behalf Of Max > >> Sent: March-25-08 5:56 PM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: [R] Rcmder Error > >> > >> Hi Guys, > >> > >> I am trying to show a plot of means with two groups. i.e. > >> > >>> plotMeans(s$CON, s$GENERAL.STARTING.DEPT, s$Cat, error.bars="se") > >> > >> and I get the error in Rcmdr: > >> > >> ERROR: need finite 'ylim' values > >> > >> Pasting the code in R gets the following error: > >> > >> x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf > >> Warning in max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf > >> Error in plot.window(...) : need finite 'ylim' values > >> > >> I'm not sure what's going on. I know in R 2.6 I ran the same code > and > >> had no problem. Any suggestions on what I can do to fix it? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> -Max > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> 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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
