[R] Error in Arules

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 3/4/2008 5:14 PM, Tibert, Brock wrote:
> Thanks for getting back to me.
> 
> Here are the basic commands:
> 
> These commands work:
> library("arules")
> basket <- read.csv("C:/Documents and Settings/     /Desktop/mba2.csv",
> na.strings=c(".", "NA", "", "?"))
> basket2 <- as(split(basket$Product, basket$Id), "transactions")
> 
> the following command used to work.  It stopped when I tried to edit the
> axes.
> image(basket2)
> 
> Here is the error:
> Error in image.default(basket2) : 'z' must be a matrix

basket2 is not a matrix.  I think the business about the axes is a 
coincidence:  probably the previous times when you tried this, basket2 
*was* a matrix.

> 
> As an aside, when I start R, I noticed that this shows up, and I do not
> remember if this was normal:
> 
> *******
> Loading required package: utils
> Loading required package: stats
> Loading required package: lattice
> 
> Attaching package: 'Matrix'
> 
> 
>         The following object(s) are masked from package:stats :
> 
>          xtabs 
> 
> ** fixing ngCMatrix validation
> [Previously saved workspace restored]

Some people disagree, but in my opinion, it's always a bad idea to save 
your workspace, so that R restores old one when you restart.  You never 
know what is in there causing trouble.

My advice would be to always choose "No" when asked whether to save the 
workspace as you shut down.  Then, while R is shut down, find the .RData 
file (probably in your home directory) and delete it.  Be aware that 
this will lose all R objects in it, so don't do it unless you know how 
to rebuild them.

Duncan Murdoch


> ********
> 
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Brock
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 4:51 PM
> To: Tibert, Brock
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Error in Arules
> 
> On 04/03/2008 4:34 PM, Tibert, Brock wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> This is my first posting and I am just starting to fumble my way thru
> R.
>> I have been working thru the Arules package, and I used to be able to
>> use the image function and I get the following message:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Error in image.default(basket2) : 'z' must be a matrix
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I used to be able to plot the image.  I only started to get this error
>> when I tried to add x and y axis labels.  Any ideas?
> 
> It would be helpful to show code that works, and code that doesn't.  But
> 
> what the error message says is that someone (you?  the code you called?)
> 
> called the image.default function with just one argument basket2, and 
> it's not a matrix.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch