[R] Error in leaps.setup

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, thedoctor81877 wrote:

>
> Hullo,
> I am trying to use the leaps package, & keep getting the following error:
> Error in leaps.setup(x, y, wt = wt, nbest = nbest, nvmax = NCOL(x) + int,  :
>  y and x different lengths

x might be a data frame rather than a matrix.

In any case, although you don't say, my psychic debugging powers tell me that you are using the leaps() function from the package.  Use regsubsets() instead. As the help page indicates, leaps() is just there for compatibility with S-PLUS.

> My data set is attached below.

No, it isn't.  It may have been stripped off by the mailing list.

     -thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle