[Rsiena-help] ego x alter error message

[Lewis, Kevin]

dear ruth, this works perfectly! at least for the moment- the model is off and running :)

thanks so much for your quick response and assistance! best wishes,

-kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Ruth M. Ripley [mailto:ruth at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 3:23 PM
To: Lewis, Kevin
Cc: RSiena help list (rsiena-help at lists.r-forge.r-project.org)
Subject: Re: [Rsiena-help] ego x alter error message

Dear Kevin,

It looks like an error in the shortName. The directed network version is 
called egoXaltX: you could try changing the shortName on the relevant row 
in your effects object to this.

Please let me know if this works. I will do a proper fix when I get a 
moment.

Regards,

Ruth

On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Lewis, Kevin wrote:

> greetings,
>
> recently i attempted to run a network/behavior co-evolution model using the latest version of R, and the latest version of RSiena from r-forge. the network is undirected, and i included the "ego x alter" selection effect for the behavioral variable. i received the following error message:
>
>> results <- siena07(mymodel, data=mydata, effects=myeff, batch=FALSE, verbose=TRUE)
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> Error in initializeFRAN(z, x, data, effects, prevAns, initC, profileData = profileData,  :
>  Unexpected effect name: egoXAlt
>
> i had no trouble with this model using Siena version 3, so i am wondering if this is just a bug in the ego x alter effect for undirected networks in RSiena? any help would be appreciated! many thanks,
>
> -kevin
>
> Kevin Lewis
> Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology
> Harvard University
> 33 Kirkland Street
> Cambridge, MA 02138
>
>