result <- cor.test(a,b,method="spearman") result$estimate Cheers Joris
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Ekaterina Pek <ekaterina....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, all. > > Yet another beginner to R : ) > > I wonder, how it's possible to get the value of a coefficient from the > object produced by cor.test() ? > >> cor.test(a, b, method="spearman") > > Spearman's rank correlation rho > > data: a and b > S = 21554.28, p-value = 2.496e-11 > alternative hypothesis: true rho is not equal to 0 > sample estimates: > rho > 0.6807955 > > Warning message: > In cor.test.default(a, b, method = "spearman") : > Cannot compute exact p-values with ties > > > So, I'd like to do something like : > >> result = cor.test(...) >> rho = result.rho() > > -- in order to save then the value in some format into external file. > > Thanks in advance for helping ! > > Regards, > Kate. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Department of Applied mathematics, biometrics and process control tel : +32 9 264 59 87 joris.m...@ugent.be ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php ______________________________________________ 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.