With two variables there are no combinations with less than 2 observations. Here's the part of the data you provided:
> df <- structure(list(V1 = c(200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 200, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 350, 350, 350, 350, 350, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500), V2 = c(16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24), V3 = c(16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -90L)) > xtabs(~V1+V2+V3, df) # There are 9 cells with 0 entries. That is the problem. , , V3 = 9 V2 V1 8 16 24 200 5 0 5 350 5 5 0 500 0 5 5 , , V3 = 16 V2 V1 8 16 24 200 5 5 0 350 0 5 5 500 5 0 5 , , V3 = 23 V2 V1 8 16 24 200 0 5 5 350 5 0 5 500 5 5 0 > xtabs(~V1+V2, df) # No cells < 2 with V1, V2 V2 V1 8 16 24 200 10 10 10 350 10 10 10 500 10 10 10 > xtabs(~V1+V3, df) # No cells < 2 with V1, V3 V3 V1 9 16 23 200 10 10 10 350 10 10 10 500 10 10 10 > xtabs(~V2+V3, df) # No cells < 2 with V2, V3 V3 V2 9 16 23 8 10 10 10 16 10 10 10 24 10 10 10 David L. Carlson Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Yectli Huerta via R-help Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 6:25 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] semiparametric manova thanks for the replies. i don't believe the data is the problem. here you see how i used 3 variables and it fails, but when i use any combination of 2 variables, it does work > head(df) V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 1 200 16 16 3 64 5.584092e+13 1.616745e+12 2 200 16 16 3 64 5.589262e+13 1.715906e+12 3 200 16 16 3 64 5.588578e+13 1.714084e+12 4 200 16 16 3 64 5.588061e+13 1.651920e+12 5 200 16 16 3 64 5.589810e+13 1.624824e+12 6 200 8 16 1 48 5.585124e+13 1.689478e+12 > library(MANOVA.RM) > df$V1 [1] 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 500 500 500 500 [20] 500 500 500 500 500 500 350 350 350 350 350 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 [39] 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 500 500 500 500 500 350 350 350 350 350 350 350 [58] 350 350 350 350 350 350 350 350 350 350 350 350 350 500 500 500 500 500 500 [77] 500 500 500 500 350 350 350 350 350 500 500 500 500 500 > df$V2 [1] 16 16 16 16 16 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 16 16 16 16 16 8 8 8 8 8 [26] 8 8 8 8 8 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 16 16 16 16 16 8 8 8 8 8 [51] 16 16 16 16 16 8 8 8 8 8 16 16 16 16 16 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 [76] 16 16 16 16 16 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 > df$V3 [1] 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 23 23 23 23 23 [26] 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 16 16 16 16 16 [51] 9 9 9 9 9 23 23 23 23 23 16 16 16 16 16 23 23 23 23 23 16 16 16 16 16 [76] 23 23 23 23 23 16 16 16 16 16 9 9 9 9 9 > > MANOVA.wide(cbind(V6,V7)~V1*V2*V3,data=df,seed=1234) Error in MANOVA.wide(cbind(V6, V7) ~ V1 * V2 * V3, data = df, seed = 1234) : There is at least one factor-level combination with less than 2 observations! > MANOVA.wide(cbind(V6,V7)~V1*V2,data=df,seed=1234) Call: cbind(V6, V7) ~ V1 * V2 Wald-Type Statistic (WTS): Test statistic df p-value V1 17.870 4 0.001 V2 20.392 4 0.000 V1:V2 24.127 8 0.002 .... > MANOVA.wide(cbind(V6,V7)~V1*V3,data=df,seed=1234) Call: cbind(V6, V7) ~ V1 * V3 Wald-Type Statistic (WTS): Test statistic df p-value V1 18.566 4 0.001 V3 19.894 4 0.001 V1:V3 27.330 8 0.001 ... > MANOVA.wide(cbind(V6,V7)~V2*V3,data=df,seed=1234) Call: cbind(V6, V7) ~ V2 * V3 Wald-Type Statistic (WTS): Test statistic df p-value V2 20.139 4 0.000 V3 19.947 4 0.001 V2:V3 32.088 8 0.000 .... ______________________________________________ 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.