[#5815] Weight variable when creating sequences

Date:
2014-07-24 15:32 Priority:
3

State:
Open

Submitted by:
Alba Lanau (polisonica) Assigned to:
Nobody (None)

Resolution:
Won't Fix Severity:
minor

TraMineR version:
v2.0-10

E-Mail address:
alba.lanau@bristol.ac.uk

Summary:
Weight variable when creating sequences

Detailed description
I have noticed that if, for some reason, when creating sequences I introduce a variable that does not exist in the weight field (e.g. weights=mvad$fakevar in the example below) the program does not show an error. Instead it creates the sequences and allows to continue with the analysis. It is only a small thing, but it would be handy to receive an error. data("mvad") library(WeightedCluster) mvad.seq<-seqdef(mvad[, 17:86], weights=mvad$fakevar) Kind Regards

Comments:

Message
Date: 2014-08-13 12:41 Sender: Matthias Studer Thank you for your bug report. Unfortunately, R itself does not throw an error when acessing mvad$fakevar, but return a NULL value instead. For this reason, we cannot distinguish between unspecified weight and misspeciefied values.

Field	Old Value	Date	By
Resolution	None	2014-08-13 12:41	matthias_studer