Re: [R] is.numeric () FALSE

2013-05-08 Thread David Carlson
ay 8, 2013 4:25 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] is.numeric () FALSE Jeff, The dataset are 3D landmarks taken from a skull (Homo being the dataset of 3 species of the genus Homo) I am trying to perform Generalised Procrustes Distance and superimposition and as you can see, I am told x is

Re: [R] is.numeric () FALSE

2013-05-08 Thread Alannah
Jeff, The dataset are 3D landmarks taken from a skull (Homo being the dataset of 3 species of the genus Homo) I am trying to perform Generalised Procrustes Distance and superimposition and as you can see, I am told x is not True. If I also perform is.numeric(Homo) I am told that it is FALSE. I hop

Re: [R] is.numeric () FALSE

2013-05-07 Thread Jim Lemon
On 05/08/2013 01:38 PM, Alannah wrote: Hi there, I am reading into R a dataset with 30 variables. It is in csv file format but have also tried txt. While my dataset loads without warning, when I tried to use Geomorph package (my dataset is from a 3D model) I get a warning that is.atomic(x) is no

Re: [R] is.numeric () FALSE

2013-05-07 Thread Jeff Newmiller
This is an imponderable question, since we would have to be psychic to know what you are doing wrong without seeing what you are actually doing. I can hypothesize that you are testing whether a data frame is numeric, and can warn you that a data frame will NEVER be numeric. The individual column

Re: [R] is.numeric () FALSE

2013-05-07 Thread David Winsemius
On May 7, 2013, at 8:38 PM, Alannah wrote (from Nabble): > Hi there, I am reading into R a dataset with 30 variables. It is in csv file > format but have also tried txt. While my dataset loads without warning, when > I tried to use Geomorph package (my dataset is from a 3D model) I get a > warni

[R] is.numeric () FALSE

2013-05-07 Thread Alannah
Hi there, I am reading into R a dataset with 30 variables. It is in csv file format but have also tried txt. While my dataset loads without warning, when I tried to use Geomorph package (my dataset is from a 3D model) I get a warning that is.atomic(x) is not true. I understand this is a broad prob