Hi Gabor, Thanks for your reply. I've written something that can be copied and pasted into your monitor to reproduce the error I am experiencing. Once the loop experiences a column full of NAs in SourceMat (column 3), it exits with errors, and ResultMat is only partially complete (up to column 2) with o/p intercept and slope results.
When I include the 'na.action=NULL' statement, I get the following statement: Error in lm.fit(x, y, offset = offset, singular.ok = singular.ok, ...) : NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 1) When I leave this statement out, I get the following: Error in lm.fit(x, y, offset = offset, singular.ok = singular.ok, ...) : 0 (non-NA) cases In either case, ResultMat is only filled up to column 2: [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10] [1,] 5.3611056 5.4099400 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA [2,] -0.8028985 -0.4078084 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ##Code start SourceMat<-matrix(data=rnorm(100), ncol=10, nrow=10) SourceMat[,3]<-c(NA) tt<-time(SourceMat) rownum=2 colnum=10 ResultMat<-matrix(NA, ncol=colnum, nrow=rownum) #loop through each column in the source matrix: for (i in 1:10) { sel_col<-SourceMat[col(SourceMat)==i] #selecting the correct column in the matrix in turn ResultMat[,i]<-coef(lm(tt~sel_col, na.action=NULL)) } ##Code end I would be grateful for any suggestions to avoid this problem. Thanks, rcoder rcoder wrote: > > Well, in this case I don't think my original code would have helped > much... > > So, I've rewritten as below. I want to perform regression between one > column in a matrix and all other columns in the same matrix. I have a for > loop to achieve this, which succeeds in exporting intercept and slope > coefficients to a results matrix, except when a column that contains only > NAs is reached. Columns partially filled with NAs are handled, but the > code exits with errors when a single column is filled with NAs. I inserted > the 'na.action=NULL' statement within the lm() construct, but to no avail. > I would be very grateful for any advice. > >>tt<-time(SourceMat) >>ResultMat<-matrix(NA, ncol=colnum, nrow=rownum) #creates an o/p template matrix > > #loop through each column in the source matrix: >>for (i in 1:5000) > { > sel_col<-[col(SourceMat)==i] #selecting the correct column in the > matrix in turn > SourceMat[,i]<-coef(lm(tt~sel_col), na.action=NULL) > } > > Thanks, > > rcoder > > > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> >> Read the last line of every message to r-help. >> >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 6:15 PM, rcoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I am trying to apply linear regression to adjacent columns in a matrix >>> (i.e. >>> col1~col2; col3~col4; etc.). The columns in my matrix come with >>> identifiers >>> at the top of each column, but when I try to use these identifiers to >>> reference the columns in the regression function using rollapply(), the >>> columns are not recognised and the regression breaks down. Is there a >>> more >>> robust way to reference the columns I need, so that I can apply the >>> regression across the matrix; 'by.column', but every other column? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> rcoder >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://www.nabble.com/rolling-regression-between-adjacent-columns-tp18722392p18722392.html >>> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/rolling-regression-between-adjacent-columns-tp18722392p18743632.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.