How to pairwise delete with tetrachoric correlations

[Filmq]

Hi,

I am a beginner in using R studio. I am running a factor analysis using tetrachoric correlations from the PSYCH package.

I have some missing data, and I don't know how to omit only the missing data in cells (not rows or columns) which is called pairwise deletions in SPSS.

I found some code which works for pearsons correlations e.g., cor(dataset,use="pairwise.complete.obs")

But when I try the same code for tetrachoric correlations it does not work e.g., tetrachoric(dataset,use="pairwise.complete.obs").

I receive the following message
Error in tetrachoric(ACE, use = "pairwise.complete.obs") :
unused argument (use = "pairwise.complete.obs")

Could anyone provide any help in deleting only the missing data in cells e.g., NA

Thanks

[gueyenono]

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