try resetting your levels? if that doesn't work, please dput() an example data set that we can test with :) thanks!
sii.design <- update( sii.design , d6 = factor( d6 ) ) On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Martin Canon <martin.ca...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > > I'm trying to calculate the weighted mean score of a quality of life > measure (ovt) in patients with irritable bowel syndrome by their > marital status (d7). > > This is a summary of the structure of the dataset: > > > str(sii.tesis) > 'data.frame': 1063 obs. of 75 variables: > $ id : int 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 ... > $ stratum : Factor w/ 6 levels "MEst","MAcad",..: 1 4 NA 4 4 1 6 NA 4 > 4 ... > $ expfc : num 22.8 17.1 NA 17.1 17.1 ... > $ d6 : Factor w/ 3 levels "Estudiante","Profesor",..: 1 1 NA > 1 1 1 3 NA 1 1 ... > $ d7 : Factor w/ 6 levels "Soltero","Casado",..: 1 1 NA 1 1 1 > 1 NA 1 1 ... > $ d7c : Factor w/ 2 levels "No estable","Estable": 1 1 NA 1 1 > 1 1 NA 1 1 ... > $ s1cm : Factor w/ 2 levels "No","Si": 1 2 NA 1 1 1 2 NA 1 1 ... > $ ovt : num NA 93.4 NA NA NA ... > > I declared the sampling design: > > > sii.design <- svydesign( > id = ~1, > strata = ~stratum, > weights = ~expfc, > data = subset(sii.tesis, !is.na(stratum))) > > Then I tried to get the result: > > > svyby(~ovt, ~d7, sii.design, svymean, na.rm = TRUE, level = 0.95) > > but i get the error: > > Error in tapply(1:NROW(x), list(factor(strata)), function(index) { : > arguments must have same length > > > The length of both variables is the same. If the variable ovt exists, > there is a d7 match in the data frame. > > I try the same thing using another variable instead - "role" (d6) - > and it works. > > > svyby(~ovt, ~d6, sii.design, svymean, na.rm = TRUE, level = 0.95) > d6 ovt se > Estudiante Estudiante 71.01805 1.370569 > Profesor Profesor 72.30923 6.518378 > Administrativo Administrativo 75.69102 3.715050 > > If I use the recategorized d7 variable (d7c, two levels only) it works > too: > > > svyby(~ovt, ~d7c, sii.design, svymean, na.rm = TRUE, level = 0.95) > d7c ovt se > No estable No estable 70.92344 1.37460 > Estable Estable 74.53719 4.16954 > > > What could be the problem? > > > Regards. > > > Martin Canon > Colombia, South America > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[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.