Re: [R] wilcox.exact() problem

2009-10-28 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Achim Zeileis wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, David Croll wrote: Am I paranoid, or am I in search of an exactness statistics cannot deliver? Paranoid. ;-) With your sample size all solutions should be sufficiently close to exact. Well, the world could still be out to get him... It is required

Re: [R] wilcox.exact() problem

2009-10-28 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, David Croll wrote: Dear Achim, let me thank you for this assurance! The sample size is too large (~4000 observations per group) to solve this problem exactly. The error message could maybe be improved, but the message is clear: This is too large to deal with. However

Re: [R] wilcox.exact() problem

2009-10-28 Thread David Croll
Dear Achim, let me thank you for this assurance! The sample size is too large (~4000 observations per group) to solve this problem exactly. The error message could maybe be improved, but the message is clear: This is too large to deal with. However, this is not a problem. With several thou

Re: [R] wilcox.exact() problem

2009-10-27 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, David Croll wrote: Dear R friends, here I write again about the wilcox.exact() problem. I want to compare two sets of categorical data, and in one case it says "negative length vectors not allowed", and in the other one I get the error "cannot allocate vector of length ..

[R] wilcox.exact() problem

2009-10-27 Thread David Croll
Dear R friends, here I write again about the wilcox.exact() problem. I want to compare two sets of categorical data, and in one case it says "negative length vectors not allowed", and in the other one I get the error "cannot allocate vector of length ...". On http://rapidshare.com/files/298