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Briefly, Var is a data frame and rcorr wants a matrix. -- Bert On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Jason Love <jason.love1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I'd like to test a significance of two variables in their correlation using > rcorr, which gave me an error of format incompatibility. > Below are the lines that I typed in the R window and let me know if anyone > knows how to resolve this. > > Var=read.csv("03apr10ab_corr_matrix_in_overlaps.csv",header=F) > colnames(Var)=c("D Prime","T statistics") > > D Prime T statistics > 1 1.7234e-01 4.926800 > 2 1.4399e-01 2.892000 > 3 1.4626e-01 2.642800 > 4 3.5147e-02 1.112400 > 5 5.8957e-02 2.723700 > > > rcorr(Var, type="pearson") > > Error in storage.mode(x) <- if (.R.) "double" else "single" : > (list) object cannot be coerced to type 'double' > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ 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.