Hi Suhaila, You don't need to make a function: your script should just contain: med <- read.csv("medicalData.csv")
If you do want to make a function, then you need to assign the resulting value to something, eg: med <- readData() but there's no reason to do that. Values that are assigned within a function don't persist in the global environment. Sarah On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Suhaila Haji Mohd Hussin <bell_beaut...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hello. I'm a newbie here. > In my script (I name it readData.R), I wrote the followings: > readData <-function(){ med = read.csv("medicalData.csv");} > Then I tested the script by 'Source R Code' then on the command I typed > 'readData()' then I typed 'med' to check if the variable contains the medical > data but it returned 'Object med is not found'. What did I do wrong? Please > help. > Cheers,Suhaila -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.