Unused argument in R
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paria ▴ 90

I am calling two function repeatedly (Nrep times) and save the results using the below code:

repeat.gendat <- function(Nreps,N, quantilelist=c(0,1,5,50,95,99,100),
                          distrib='norm',n.mean=5, n.stdev=3,e.lambda=0.1,
                          qq=0.5,M=1) {
  for (j in 1:Nreps) {
    if (j==1) {
      if (distrib=='norm') { output.data <- gen.norm.dat(N,n.mean,n.stdev,quantilelist)}
      if (distrib=='exp')  { output.data <- gen.exp.dat(N,e.lambda,quantilelist)}
      if (distrib=='binom')  { output.data <- 
        gen.binom.dat(N,qq, M,quantilelist)}
    }
    if (j>1) {
      if (distrib=='norm') { output.data <- rbind(output.data,
                                 gen.norm.dat(N,n.mean,n.stdev,quantilelist)) }
      if (distrib=='exp') { output.data <- rbind(output.data,
                                 gen.exp.dat(N,e.lambda,quantilelist)) }
      if (distrib=='binom') { output.data <- rbind(output.data,
                                 gen.binom.dat(N,qq,M,quantilelist)) }
      }
  } 
return(output.data)
}

And then to generate the normally distributed data I run the below code in Rstudio:

data1 <- repeat.gendat(100, 50,quantilelist=c(0,1,5,50,95,99,100),
                       distrib='norm', n.mean = 5, n.stdev = 3)

But I am getting this error: Error in rnorm(Nreps, N, n.mean, n.stdev) : unused argument (n.stdev) I don't know where I am wrong. Any help would be appreciated

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Paria, please use "code sample" option to indicate your code lines.

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Is the function gen.norm.dat from a library, or did you define it elsewhere? This function is likely calling rnorm incorrectly, but I wouldn't be able to help without knowing the origin of the function.

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The parameters for rnorm is rnorm(N, mean, sd). I guess what you are trying to do here is to generate multiple normally distributed values. For that you will need to do replicate(Nreps, rnorm(N, n.mean, n.stdev)) in the gen.norm.dat function.

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paria ▴ 90

The problem was solved. That is right I did not run gen.norm.data before this code. Thank you all

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How did you resolve the problem?

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The gen.norm.data was a function and without defining it I was trying to run it. So, that was the reason I was getting the error. I run the gen.norm.data function. Does that make sense?

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