plm model “within” - Warning messages in R

问题:

i have a problem running this plm model:

my data are (example):

    country=c(1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3)     year=c(1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3)     a=c(1,4,6,3,5,8,4,5,7)     b=c(8,5,7,2,7,4,9,7,1)     matrix=cbind(country, year, a, b)     matrix=plm.data(matrix) 

I run following regression:

    reg=plm(a~year+b, data=matrix, index=NULL, model="within")     summary(reg) 

and get following warning message:[1]

    Warning messages:     1: In if (is.na(le)) { :       the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used     2: In if (is.na(le)) " __no length(.)__ " else if (give.length) { :       the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used     3: In if (le > 0) paste0("[1:", paste(le), "]") else "(0)" :       the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used 

What is wrong?

回答1:

I had the same problem and found an answer (here)

This warning is given when a vector like this:

le<-c(4,2,6,5) 

is used in a test like this:

if(is.na(le)) ... 

R only looks at the first value in the vector for the test, but warns you that there were other values that were not tested. If the test was:

if(is.na(le[1])) 

It doesn't matter if "le" has only one value or more than one and you don't get the warning. It usually doesn't mess anything up.

回答2:

This is because str checks the length of its object, and plm uses extended formulas from the Formula package. Now, Formula:::length.Formula returns a vector rather than a number, which causes the warning, as explained by simon_icl. While you may not call str yourself, perhaps your IDE, say RStudio, may use it to show the object structure of objects in the workspace.

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