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Arun
Arun

Reputation: 625

R::Error in argument is not a matrix

I need to pick top 3 values from each column of a matrix using R and populate the values to a holder(another matrix).

While trying to do this, I am getting an error as :

Error in t.default(head(n = 3, rownames(trans.cosine[order(trans.cosine[,  : 
  argument is not a matrix

This is the R code i use:

recsys <- read.csv("H:/Recommender Systems/Recsys.csv") 

recsys.ibs <- (recsys[,!(names(recsys) %in% c("NAME"))])     
recsys.ibs.normalized <- normalize(recsys.ibs, byrow =  FALSE)

n <- recsys$NAME
trans <- t(recsys.ibs.normalized)
colnames(trans) <- n
trans.cosine <- cosine(trans)
write.csv(trans.cosine, "H:/Recommender Systems/cosine_similarity.csv")

recsys.neighbours <- matrix(NA, nrow=ncol(trans.cosine),ncol=3,dimnames=list(colnames(trans.cosine)))


for(i in 1:ncol(trans.cosine)) 
{
  recsys.neighbours[i,] <- (t(head(n=3,rownames(trans.cosine[order(trans.cosine[,i],decreasing=TRUE),][i]))))
}

I am getting the error as soon as i execute the above for loop.

I checked the vectors, they are matrix. But still i am getting the error.

> class(trans.cosine)
[1] "matrix"
> class(recsys.neighbours)
[1] "matrix"

Any help on this would be verymuch useful.

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9768

Answers (1)

Robert Hijmans
Robert Hijmans

Reputation: 47696

Your example is not reproducible, but because you are using [i] you get a single number which has no rownames, so that you get

t(NULL)
# Error in t.default(NULL) : argument is not a matrix

The same could happen without the [i] if the matrix has no rownames. And either way, rownames returns a vector, so using t is not meaningful here. head(3, is also odd, use [1:3]

Upvotes: 2

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