> On Jul 9, 2016, at 4:32 AM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hmm, and levels(m11$prog)?
Shivi; See what this returns: "honors" %in% levels(m11$prog) The level is probably something like " honors" It's fairly easy to inadvertently create leading or trailing spaces when reading from comma-separated files. > test <- read.csv( text = " honors, others\n honors, others\n", header=FALSE) > test V1 V2 1 honors others 2 honors others > nchar(test$V1) Error in nchar(test$V1) : 'nchar()' requires a character vector > nchar(as.character(test$V1)) [1] 7 7 > "honors" %in% levels(test$V1) [1] FALSE -- David. > > (There's a chance that a space has sneaked in, but your HTML mail makes it > hard to see column alignment) > > -pd > >> On 09 Jul 2016, at 12:50 , Shivi Bhatia <shivipm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Peter, >> It gives me breakdown of all categories with their respective freq. >> Diploma general honors >> 50 45 105 >> >> On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 4:07 PM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> What does table(m11$prog) tell you? >> -pd >> >>> On 09 Jul 2016, at 12:29 , Shivi Bhatia <shivipm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Dear Team, >>> >>> I am running a multinomial logistic regression model for one of the >>> fictitious data before i implement the same on my real data. >>> Here i am trying to predict based some scores and economic group whether a >>> person will go for a diploma, general or honors. >>> >>> The code below: >>> m11$prog2<- relevel(m11$prog, ref = "honors" >>> >>> already loaded the nnet library. However i got the below error: >>> Error in relevel.factor(m11$prog, ref = "honors") : >>> 'ref' must be an existing level >>> >>> I have tried searching on SO and nabble but did not find an answer that >>> could help. >>> >>> Please suggest what is incorrect. Also checked the class of the var and is >>> a factor variable. >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> 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. >> >> -- >> Peter Dalgaard, Professor, >> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School >> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark >> Phone: (+45)38153501 >> Office: A 4.23 >> Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Office: A 4.23 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.