corr: Compute correlation coefficients.

In droglenc/NCStats: Support for Statistics Classes at Northland College

Description

Computes the correlation coefficients between y and x if these are vectors. If y and x are matrices then the correlation between the columns of y and the columns of x are computed. This functionality is the same as cor in stats except that it adds the formula notation y~x.

Usage

corr(x, ...)

## Default S3 method:
corr(
  x,
  y = NULL,
  use = "everything",
  method = c("pearson", "kendall", "spearman"),
  digits = NULL,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'formula'
corr(
  x,
  data,
  use = "everything",
  method = c("pearson", "kendall", "spearman"),
  digits = getOption("digits"),
  ...
)

Arguments

x	A numeric vector, matrix, or data.frame (see details in cor) or a formula (see details here)
...	Unused.
y	A numeric vector, matrix, or data.frame (see details in cor)
use	An optional character string that defines a method for computing the correlation in the presence of missing values. This must be one of "everything", "all.obs", "complete.obs", "na.or.complete", or "pairwise.complete.obs"
method	A single character string that indicates which correlation coefficient is to be computed. Must be one of "pearson" (default), "kendall", or "spearman"
digits	A single numeric that indicates the number of decimals to which the result should be rounded.
data	An optional data frame that contains the variables in the formula.

Details

see details in cor. The formula version is only used with two variables in either the y~x or ~y+x form.

Value

A single numeric if x and y are vectors or a numeric matrix if x and y are matrices.

Author(s)

Derek H. Ogle, [e-mail], but this is largely a wrapper to cor from stats that includes a formula version.

See Also

See cor.

Examples

## example from stats::cor() ... all return equivalent
df <- data.frame(x=1:10,y=2:11)
cor(df$x,df$y)
corr(df$x,df$y)
corr(y~x,data=df)
corr(~x+y,data=df)
corr(df)

## another example from stats::cor()
cor(longley)
corr(longley)
corr(longley[1:2],longley[3:5])

## handling missing values
set.seed(3473) # to control randomness
df <- data.frame(x=c(runif(9),NA),y=c(NA,runif(9)),z=runif(10),w=runif(10))
corr(~x+y,data=df)
corr(~x+y,data=df,use="complete.obs")
corr(~x+y+z,data=df,use="complete.obs")
corr(~x+y+z,data=df,use="pairwise.complete.obs")
# no messages below (as no missing values)
corr(~w+z,data=df,use="complete.obs")
corr(~w+z,data=df,use="pairwise.complete.obs")

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