Roger: Doh! Just realized I had that error in the code -- raw_data is the same as mydata, so it should be:
mydata <- read.csv("singular.csv") plot(mydata$predictor,mydata$response) # A big cloud of points, nothing too weird summary(mydata) # No NAs: # X response predictor # Min. : 1 Min. : 0.0 Min. : 0.000 # 1st Qu.:12726 1st Qu.: 851.2 1st Qu.: 0.000 # Median :25452 Median : 2737.0 Median : 0.000 # Mean :25452 Mean : 3478.0 Mean : 5.532 # 3rd Qu.:38178 3rd Qu.: 5111.6 3rd Qu.: 5.652 # Max. :50903 Max. :26677.8 Max. :69.342 fit_spl <- rq(response ~ bs(predictor,df=15),tau=1,data=mydata) # Error in rq.fit.br(x, y, tau = tau, ...) : Singular design matrix --j On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Koenker, Roger W <rkoen...@illinois.edu>wrote: > Jonathan, > > This is not what we call a reproducible example... what is raw_data? Does > it have something to do with mydata? > what is i? > > Roger > > url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker > email rkoen...@uiuc.edu Department of Economics > vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois > fax: 217-244-6678 Urbana, IL 61801 > > On Apr 16, 2013, at 2:58 PM, Greenberg, Jonathan wrote: > > > Quantreggers: > > > > I'm trying to run rq() on a dataset I posted at: > > > https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8Kij67bij_ASUpfcmJ4LTFEUUk/edit?usp=sharing > > (it's a 1500kb csv file named "singular.csv") and am getting the > following error: > > > > mydata <- read.csv("singular.csv") > > fit_spl <- rq(raw_data[,1] ~ bs(raw_data[,i],df=15),tau=1) > > > Error in rq.fit.br(x, y, tau = tau, ...) : Singular design matrix > > > > Any ideas what might be causing this or, more importantly, suggestions > for how to solve this? I'm just trying to fit a smoothed hull to the top > of the data cloud (hence the large df). > > > > Thanks! > > > > --jonathan > > > > > > -- > > Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD > > Assistant Professor > > Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory > > Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science > > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > > 607 South Mathews Avenue, MC 150 > > Urbana, IL 61801 > > Phone: 217-300-1924 > > http://www.geog.illinois.edu/~jgrn/ > > AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn...@hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307, Skype: jgrn3007 > > -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Professor Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 607 South Mathews Avenue, MC 150 Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: 217-300-1924 http://www.geog.illinois.edu/~jgrn/ AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn...@hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307, Skype: jgrn3007 [[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.