Errors message: requiring numeric/complex matrix/vector arguments

Currently, I am trying to remove known batch effect using sva and BatchQC on express data: dds from DESeq2, suggested by Dr Jeffrey T. Leek (http://jtleek.com/genstats/inst/doc/02_13_batch-effects.html)

got two following error messages:

1) > sva1 = sva(dds,mod,mod0,n.sv=2) Number of significant surrogate variables is: 2 Error in dat %% (Id - mod %% solve(t(mod) %% mod) %% t(mod)) : requires numeric/complex matrix/vector arguments 2)> batchQC(as.data.frame(dds),batch=batch, condition=condition,view_report=FALSE,interactive=FLASE) Error in as.vector(x) : no method for coercing this S4 class to a vector

Thanks a lot

Chen

Below is information for ref.

head(assay(dds)) IGF0005585.count.RF IGF0005588.count.RF IGF0005589.count.RF IGF0005590.count.RF IGF0005591.count.RF ENSG00000000003.14 4 5 3 2 2 ENSG00000000419.12 72 162 174 219 162 ENSG00000000457.13 185 330 315 303 299 ENSG00000000460.16 38 81 52 63 55 ENSG00000000938.12 231 1358 2381 1539 988 ENSG00000000971.15 47 51 66 49 216 mod (Intercept) conditionCtrl conditionInAct 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 4 1 0 0 5 1 0 0 6 1 0 0 mod0 (Intercept) 1 1 2 1 3 1 4 1 5 1

sessionInfo() R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) Running under: OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan)

locale: [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8

attached base packages: [1] parallel stats4 stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages: [1] limma_3.30.2 reshape2_1.4.2 d3heatmap_0.6.1.1 ggvis_0.4.3
[5] pander_0.6.0 shiny_0.14.1 bladderbatch_1.12.0 BatchQC_1.2.0
[9] sva_3.22.0 genefilter_1.56.0 mgcv_1.8-15 nlme_3.1-128

jtleek / svaseq

Errors message: requiring numeric/complex matrix/vector arguments #4