Re: [R] svyglm error message

2014-02-11 Thread Jeff Newmiller
This is probably a case of incorrect import format conversion... You may be looking at the visual representation of the data within R but not the structure of the data within R. Use the str function to find out more about your data as R understands it... if you actually have empty strings mixed

Re: [R] svyglm error message

2014-02-11 Thread Claire Wladis
Yes, when I say that the cells are blank in the data frames I do mean that the contents of the cells are blank characters "". I have put in a lot of time trying to understand R, but I have no formal programming background, so I do not necessarily always know the correct terminology for something, a

Re: [R] svyglm error message

2014-02-11 Thread Bert Gunter
Disclaimer: I have not followed this thread and claim no statistical expertise. I just wanted to point out a couple of misconceptions that may be relevant. Inline below. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not know

Re: [R] svyglm error message

2014-02-11 Thread Claire Wladis
Thanks for your reply, Thomas. Yes, this is NCES data. There are no negative or missing weights. I am not a programmer and so I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by not being able to have blank cells in a data.frame object - What I mean specifically is that in the csv file which I impor

Re: [R] svyglm error message

2014-02-11 Thread Thomas Lumley
This is some sort of NCES data, right? I can't see any way to get that particular error (which happens inside glm.fit()) for a logistic model. Are there any negative or missing weights? What do you mean 'represented by blank cells' -- you can't have blank cells in a data.frame object? What d

[R] svyglm error message

2014-02-10 Thread Claire Wladis
Hello, I am using the survey package for the first time to analyze a dataset that has both weights and 200 BRR replication weights. When I try to run svyglm on the output from svrepdesign, I get an error message that I do not know how to interpret, and an extended period of time searching for this