[R] From NUM to INT

[André Luis Neves]

Hi Bert:

I thought in centering Baci variable, but I wouldn`t like to draw a
conclusion based on the scaled response variable.

On the other hand, if I had to center the explanatory variable, that would
be great, but I cannot, as it is a factor.

Thanks a lot for your time. I really appreciated your help.

Best regards,

Andre



On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Inline.
>
> -- Bert
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 2:25 PM, André Luis Neves <andrluis at ualberta.ca>
> wrote:
> > Ok. I`m trying to run a Poisson glmm with an observation-level random
> > intercept. But I`m getting the following error for the 'Baci' variable:
> >
> > 'Error: (maxstephalfit) PIRLS step-halvings failed to reduce deviance in
> > pwrssUpdate'. I  guess this message is because the baci variable is not a
> > an integer,
>
> Why would you "guess" that? Given your magnitudes, I suspect it's a
> scaling issue. Try centering and scaling your Baci variable before
> fitting.
>
> Cheers,
> Bert
>
>
>
>
>
> and cannot be transformed into an integer as R has a threshold
> > of
> > 2x10^9 even in 64 bit R.
> >
> > It runs fine for the fungii variable.
> >
> > If you guys want to run the data (attached), the full command is below.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > ##Import data:
> >
> > qPCR <- read.delim(file.choose(),
> >                  header = TRUE,
> >                  dec = ".")
> >
> > ##Load package
> >
> > library(lme4)
> >
> > ##Other steps:
> >
> > qPCR$obs <- 1:nrow(qPCR)
> > qPCR$fID<-as.factor(qPCR$ID)
> > qPCR$fDiet<-as.factor(qPCR$Diet)
> >
> > ##Run the model:
> >
> > M1 <- glmer (Baci ~ fDiet + Crossover + (1|fID:Crossover) + (1|obs),
> >              family = poisson, data=qPCR)
> >
> >
> >
> > Andre
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 2:36 PM, jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Can you explain why you need them as 'integer',  A floating point
> >> representation can hold a value upto ~4.5e15 as an "integer" keeping the
> >> precision that you might need.
> >>
> >>
> >> Jim Holtman
> >> Data Munger Guru
> >>
> >> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
> >> Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 1:11 PM, André Luis Neves <andrluis at ualberta.ca
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear all:
> >>>
> >>> I converted the columns (Baci, Meti, Fungii, Protozoai) into integers
> >>> (using excel) and then imported the data (.txt) into R. Interestingly,
> the
> >>> other three variables were loaded as INT, but the 'Baci' one continued
> as
> >>> Num.
> >>>
> >>> I imported the data using the following command line:
> >>>
> >>> X <- read.delim(file.choose(),
> >>>                  header = TRUE,
> >>>                  dec = ".")
> >>>
> >>> Here is the structure of X:
> >>>
> >>> > str(X)
> >>> 'data.frame': 115 obs. of  5 variables:
> >>>  $ ID       : Factor w/ 61 levels "107ZRED","112BLKW",..: 8 12 15 18
> 26 27
> >>> 29 31 32 36 ...
> >>>  $ Baci     : num  2.90e+12 5.55e+11 9.46e+11 8.13e+11 4.06e+11 ...
> >>>  $ Meti     : int  352645997 334146268 767208656 171567266 462747405
> >>> 414905627 237010514 387480048 214671355 328813226 ...
> >>>  $ Fungii   : int  43645 19009 15998 2189 8972 8240 3133 17922 6156
> 13746
> >>> ...
> >>>  $ Protozoai: int  3220523 1851891 3252462 1665675 34123768 23175015
> >>> 203685
> >>> 4261780 43110492 69802572 ...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I need Baci as an integer, and tried to convert it using as.integer
> >>> function, but was not successful.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Could anyone please help me to solve this problem.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Andre
> >>>
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> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andre
> >
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>



-- 
Andre

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