Revision of errors from Wed, 09/02/2009 - 07:56

General strategies for locating errors

• Use the traceback() function in R after an error occurs.It will print out the sequence of function calls that lead to the error.

"Argument is missing, with no default"

• Variations include:
• Error in single.na(to) : argument is missing, with no default
• Typical cause: A leading or trailing comma in your code makes R think that you wanted to pass in a parameter, but left it empty (hence "missing, with not default")
• Examples:
• leading comma
  to=c(,'x','y','z')
• trailing comma
  

  mxMatrix("Name"
      nrow=3,ncol=3,free=TRUE, values=.5,
  )
  

• Cure: remove the errant comma

Error in convertVFN(... NAs introduced by coercion

This error occurs when I attempt to introduce 10 new 1X1 matrices into a model coded using the path specification approach (see code on the "Errors Returned by R" thread).

Warning messages:
1: In convertVFN(values, free, labels, lbound, ubound, nrow, ncol) :
  NAs introduced by coercion
2: In convertVFN(values, free, labels, lbound, ubound, nrow, ncol) :
  NAs introduced by coercion
3: In convertVFN(values, free, labels, lbound, ubound, nrow, ncol) :
  NAs introduced by coercion
4: In convertVFN(values, free, labels, lbound, ubound, nrow, ncol) :
  NAs introduced by coercion
5: In convertVFN(values, free, labels, lbound, ubound, nrow, ncol) :
  NAs introduced by coercion
6: In convertVFN(values, free, labels, lbound, ubound, nrow, ncol) :
  NAs introduced by coercion
7: In convertVFN(values, free, labels, lbound, ubound, nrow, ncol) :
  NAs introduced by coercion
8: In convertVFN(values, free, labels, lbound, ubound, nrow, ncol) :
  NAs introduced by coercion
9: In convertVFN(values, free, labels, lbound, ubound, nrow, ncol) :
  NAs introduced by coercion
10: In convertVFN(values, free, labels, lbound, ubound, nrow, ncol) :
  NAs introduced by coercion