[Basta-users] Error with DataCheck

[Aaron Reedy]

I just resubmitted now that I am registered on the mailing list.


I'm new to BaSTA and am a pretty novice R user. I think my question might
be general to R and not specific to BaSTA. Either way, I am hoping the
community can point me in the right direction.

My dataset is 7700 lizards captured over 42 months in a closed island
population. There were 4 sampling periods in each year and the sampling was
close to 90% of the population captured during each sampling period (7-12
days). The vast majority of animals had lifespans shorter than 12 months.

I first constructed my Capture History, Birth/Death Matrix, and Covariate
Matrix (sex data for each individual).

Then I merged the matrices with:
inputMat <- merge(birthDeath, Y, by.x = "ID", by.y = "ID")
inputMat <- merge(inputMat, covMat, by.x = "ID", by.y = "ID")

Things seem to work OK there. I view inputMat and everything looks as it
should.

Then when I run DataCheck with:
newData <- DataCheck(inputMat, studyStart = 4, studyEnd = 46, autofix =
rep(1, 7), silent = FALSE)

I get the following error:
Error in rowSums(Y) : 'x' must be numeric

Can someone help me work on this error?

Thanks for having a look at this.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:39 PM Aaron Reedy <amr3mb at virginia.edu> wrote:

> I'm new to BaSTA and am a pretty novice R user. I think my question might
> be general to R and not specific to BaSTA. Either way, I am hoping the
> community can point me in the right direction.
>
> My dataset is 7700 lizards captured over 42 months in a closed island
> population. There were 4 sampling periods in each year and the sampling was
> close to 90% of the population captured during each sampling period (7-12
> days). The vast majority of animals had lifespans shorter than 12 months.
>
> I first constructed my Capture History, Birth/Death Matrix, and Covariate
> Matrix (sex data for each individual).
>
> Then I merged the matrices with:
> inputMat <- merge(birthDeath, Y, by.x = "ID", by.y = "ID")
> inputMat <- merge(inputMat, covMat, by.x = "ID", by.y = "ID")
>
> Things seem to work OK there. I view inputMat and everything looks as it
> should.
>
> Then when I run DataCheck with:
> newData <- DataCheck(inputMat, studyStart = 4, studyEnd = 46, autofix =
> rep(1, 7), silent = FALSE)
>
> I get the following error:
> Error in rowSums(Y) : 'x' must be numeric
>
> Can someone help me work on this error?
>
> Thanks for having a look at this.
>
> Aaron
>
> --
> Aaron M. Reedy
>
> NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology
>
> http://www.aaronmreedy.com/
> http://www.evolutioned.org/
>
>

-- 
Aaron M. Reedy

NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology

http://www.aaronmreedy.com/
http://www.evolutioned.org/
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