all() takes a logical argument, not numeric. See ?all I think you are looking for is.null(obj$hessian)
If this isn't what you are looking for, please send a reproducible example to the entire list. Rich On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Steven Yen <sye...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > Can someone help me with the following, specifically in judging > whether a matrix exists. I have trouble with the first line below. In > this case, matrix obj$hessian exists and is 74 x 74. I receive the > error message: > > Warning message: > In all(w$hessian) : coercing argument of type 'double' to logical > > Thank you all. > > --- > if (!all(obj$hessian)|OPG){ > vb<-obj$gradientObs; vb<-solve(t(vb)%*%vb) > vb.method<-"; v(b)=inv(G'G)" > } else { > vb<- solve(-obj$hessian) > vb.method<-"; v(b)=inv(-H)" > } > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.