Unused arguments in R error - r

Question

I am new to R , I am trying to run example which is given in "rebmix-help pdf". It use galaxy dataset and here is the code
library(rebmix)
devAskNewPage(ask = TRUE)
data("galaxy")
write.table(galaxy, file = "galaxy.txt", sep = "\t",eol = "\n", row.names = FALSE, col.names = FALSE)
REBMIX <- array(list(NULL), c(3, 3, 3))
Table <- NULL
Preprocessing <- c("histogram", "Parzen window", "k-nearest neighbour")
InformationCriterion <- c("AIC", "BIC", "CLC")
pdf <- c("normal", "lognormal", "Weibull")
K <- list(7:20, 7:20, 2:10)
for (i in 1:3) {
for (j in 1:3) {
for (k in 1:3) {
REBMIX[[i, j, k]] <- REBMIX(Dataset = "galaxy.txt",
Preprocessing = Preprocessing[k], D = 0.0025,
cmax = 12, InformationCriterion = InformationCriterion[j],
pdf = pdf[i], K = K[[k]])
if (is.null(Table))
Table <- REBMIX[[i, j, k]]$summary
else Table <- merge(Table, REBMIX[[i, j,k]]$summary, all = TRUE, sort = FALSE)
}
}
}
It is giving me error ERROR:
unused argument (InformationCriterion = InformationCriterion[j])
Plz help

Answer 1

I'm running R 3.0.2 (Windows) and the library rebmix defines a function REBMIX where InformationCriterion is not listed as a named argument, but Criterion.
Brief invoke REBMIX as :
REBMIX[[i, j, k]] <- REBMIX(Dataset = "galaxy.txt",
Preprocessing = Preprocessing[k], D = 0.0025,
cmax = 12, Criterion = InformationCriterion[j],
pdf = pdf[i], K = K[[k]])

Answer 2

It looks as though there have been substantial changes to the rebmix package since the example mentioned in the OP was created. Among the most noticable changes is the use of S4 classes.
There's also an updated demo in the rebmix package using the galaxy data (see demo("rebmix.galaxy"))
To get the above example to produce results (Note: I am not familiar with this package or the rebmix algorithm!!!):
Change the argument to Criterion as mentioned by #Giupo
Use the S4 slot access operator # instead of $
Don't name the results object REDMIX because that's already the function name
library(rebmix)
data("galaxy")
## Don't re-name the REBMIX object!
myREBMIX <- array(list(NULL), c(3, 3, 3))
Table <- NULL
Preprocessing <- c("histogram", "Parzen window", "k-nearest neighbour")
InformationCriterion <- c("AIC", "BIC", "CLC")
pdf <- c("normal", "lognormal", "Weibull")
K <- list(7:20, 7:20, 2:10)
for (i in 1:3) {
for (j in 1:3) {
for (k in 1:3) {
myREBMIX[[i, j, k]] <- REBMIX(Dataset = list(galaxy),
Preprocessing = Preprocessing[k], D = 0.0025,
cmax = 12, Criterion = InformationCriterion[j],
pdf = pdf[i], K = K[[k]])
if (is.null(Table)) {
Table <- myREBMIX[[i, j, k]]#summary
} else {
Table <- merge(Table, myREBMIX[[i, j,k]]#summary, all = TRUE, sort = FALSE)
}
}
}
}

Answer 3

I guess this is late. But I encountered a similar problem just a few minutes ago. And I realized the real scenario that you may face when you got this kind of error msg... It's just the version conflict.
You may use a different version of the R package from the tutorial, thus the argument names could be different between what you are running and what the real code use.
So please check the version first before you try to manually edit the file. Also, it happens that your old version package is still in the path and it overrides the new one. This was exactly what I had... since I manually installed the old and new version separately...