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estimateEffects fails when the treatment variable is logical (rather than a 0-1 numeric) #31

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@MWYang
data(lalonde)

lalonde.match.on <- c('age', 'black')
lalonde.match.form <- as.formula(re78 ~ treat + age + black)

# The following works

lalonde.frontier <- makeFrontier(dataset = lalonde,
                            treatment = 'treat',
                            match.on = lalonde.match.on)
lalonde.estimates <- estimateEffects(lalonde.frontier, 're78 ~ treat',
                                mod.dependence.formula = lalonde.match.form,
                                continuous.vars = c('age', 'education', 're74', 're75'),
                                prop.estimated = .1,
                                means.as.cutpoints = TRUE)

# However, it does not after running this line:
lalonde$treat <- lalonde$treat == 1

> lalonde.frontier <- makeFrontier(dataset = lalonde,
+                             treatment = 'treat',
+                             match.on = lalonde.match.on)
Calculating Mahalanobis distances...
Calculating theoretical frontier...
Calculating information for plotting the frontier...
> lalonde.estimates <- estimateEffects(lalonde.frontier, 're78 ~ treat',
+                                 mod.dependence.formula = lalonde.match.form,
+                                 continuous.vars = c('age', 'education', 're74', 're75'),
+                                 prop.estimated = .1,
+                                 means.as.cutpoints = TRUE)
Error in confint(results, level = alpha)[frontier.object$treatment, ] : 
  subscript out of bounds

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