The message "Error in profile$Y : object of type 'closure' is not subsettable" means R thinks you are attempting to subset the function profile.
Pick a different name for your variable to avoid the name clash. On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:18 AM, mattnixon <m.r.ni...@ex.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > I am attempting to write code which will read in my data which is of this > form: > > X1 Y1 X2 Y2 .... Xn Yn > 0 0 0 0 0 0 > 1 0 1 255 1 0 > 2 255 2 0 2 255 > 3 0 3 0 3 0 > 4 0 4 0 4 0 > 5 0 5 0 5 255 > 6 125 6 125 6 0 > 7 0 7 0 7 0 > 8 0 8 0 8 125 > . > . > . > > With n~100. My current code deals with only 1 data set, n~1 (below): > > > profile<-read.table("datav1.txt",header=T) > attach(profile) > > lines<-profile[Y>100,] > d<-lines$X > i<-1 > l<-1:1:i > > while(i<30){ > l[i]<-(d[(i+1)]-d[i]) > temp<-i+1 > i<-temp > } > > L<-l[l>22] > > > I want to extend this to accept n data sets to see how L varies between > each > data set. The way I have been trying to do this is as follows: > > profile<-read.table("datav2.txt",header=T) > j<-1 > lines[j]<-profile[profile$Y[(2*j)]>100,] > > etc. > > However this returns the message "Error in profile$Y : object of type > 'closure' is not subsettable". Does anybody know if there is any way I can > read in a file containing many data sets and save each data set as an > element of some matrix before performing the calculations (above) on it? Or > some other method to achieve the same thing? > > Any help or suggestions would be great! Thank you. > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Reading-in-and-manipulating-multiple-data-sets-from-the-same-input-file-tp3335523p3335523.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.