I am a Professor of Statistics at Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, India. While teaching in class about analysis of variance using R, I was doing a one-way analysis for the two data-sets given below in the R-class. I got a typical error in "emmeans" package, please help:
Data-set-1: -------------- Medley and Clements (1998) investigated the impact of zinc contamination (and other heavy metals) on the diversity of diatom species in the USA Rocky Mountains. The diversity of diatoms (number of species) and degree of zinc contamination (categorized as either of high, medium, low or natural background level) were recorded from between four and six sampling stations within each of six streams known to be polluted, as given below: stream=c("Eagle", "Eagle", "Eagle", "Eagle", "Blue", "Blue", "Blue", "Blue", "Blue", "Blue", "Blue", "Snake", "Snake", "Snake", "Snake", "Snake", "Arkan", "Arkan", "Arkan", "Arkan", "Arkan", "Arkan", "Arkan", "Chalk", "Chalk", "Chalk", "Chalk", "Chalk", "Splat", "Splat", "Splat", "Splat", "Splat", "Splat") zinc=c("BACK", "HIGH", "HIGH", "MED", "BACK", "HIGH", "BACK", "BACK", "HIGH", "MED", "MED", "BACK", "MED", "HIGH", "HIGH", "HIGH", "LOW", "LOW", "LOW", "LOW", "MED", "MED", "LOW", "LOW", "HIGH", "HIGH", "MED", "LOW", "BACK", "BACK", "MED", "LOW", "MED", "BACK") diversity=c(2.27, 1.25, 1.15, 1.62, 1.7, 0.63, 2.05, 1.98, 1.04, 2.19, 2.1, 2.2, 2.06, 1.9, 1.88, 0.85, 1.4, 2.18, 1.83, 1.88, 2.02, 1.94, 2.1, 2.38, 1.43, 1.37, 1.75, 2.83, 1.53, 0.76, 0.8, 1.66, 0.98, 1.89) medley.clementis=data.frame(stream,zinc,diversity) I did the one-way anova: ------------------------------- medley.clementis.aov=with(medley.clementis, aov(diversity ~ zinc)) anova(medley.clementis) Then, I tried to do post hoc analysis using "emmeans" package following command: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- emmeans::emmeans(medley.clementis.aov, "zinc") This gives following error: ---------------------------------- Error in recover_data.call(fcall, delete.response(terms(object)), object$na.action, : object 'possibly.random' not found Error in ref_grid(object, ...) : Perhaps a 'data' or 'params' argument is needed Data-set-2: --------------- Keough and Raimondi (1995) examined the effects of four biofilm types (SL: sterile unfilmed substrate, NL: netted laboratory biofilms, UL: unnetted laboratory biofilms and F: netted field biofilms) on the recruitment of serpulid larvae. Substrates treated with one of the four biofilm types were left in shallow marine waters for one week after which the number of newly recruited serpulid worms were counted, as given below: biofilm=c("SL", "SL", "SL", "SL", "SL", "SL", "SL", "UL", "UL", "UL", "UL", "UL", "UL", "UL", "NL", "NL", "NL", "NL", "NL", "NL", "NL", "F", "F", "F", "F", "F", "F", "F") serpulid=c(61, 113, 123, 75, 75, 83, 95, 143, 81, 101, 155, 156, 193, 163, 203, 159, 139, 161, 179, 97, 157, 128.5, 204.5, 108.5, 116.5, 140.5, 160.5, 87.5) keough.raimondi=data.frame(biofilm,serpulid) Applied log-transformation: ------------------------------------------- keough.raimondi.ln=transform(keough.raimondi, serpulid.ln=log(serpulid)) I did the one-way anova, with contrasts defined below: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ contrasts(keough.raimondi.ln$biofilm) <- cbind(c(0, 1, 0, -1), c(2, -1, 0, -1), c(-1, -1, 3, -1)) keough.raimondi.ln$biofilm keough.contr.list <- list(biofilm = list('NL vs UL' = 1, 'F vs (NL & UL)' = 2, 'SL vs (F & NL & UL)' = 3)) keough.contr.list One-way anova: ---------------------- keough.raimondi.ln.aov=with(keough.raimondi.ln, aov(serpulid.ln ~ biofilm)) summary(keough.raimondi.ln.aov,split=keough.contr.list) Then, I tried to do post hoc analysis using "emmeans" package following command: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- emmeans(keough.raimondi.ln.aov, ~ biofilm) This gives following error: ---------------------------------- Error in recover_data.call(fcall, delete.response(terms(object)), object$na.action, : object 'possibly.random' not found Error in ref_grid(object, ...) : Perhaps a 'data' or 'params' argument is needed Help Needed: ------------------ On many other data sets and data frame I successfully used "emmeans" package using the help available in R. But, for the above two data-sets, I consistently got the same error as described above. I do not know what is amiss. Where I am missing or whatever is wrong, I request the entire R-team to help me to solve above problem. Thanking in advance. Dr. A.K. Singh Professor and Head Department of Agricultural Statistics Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya Raipur-492012, Chhattisgarh, India Mob: +918770625795 Email: akhileshsingh.i...@gmail.com WhatsApp: +919039202968 [[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.