partial = "semi" returns invalid argument type error

[rbcavanaugh]

Hi - following the documentation in correlation to calculate semi-partial correlations, but getting this error. Thanks

Doc: partial: Can be TRUE or "semi" for partial and semi-partial correlations, respectively.

library(correlation)
#> Warning: package 'correlation' was built under R version 4.3.3
correlation(iris[,1:4], partial = "semi")
#> Error in !partial: invalid argument type
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