You need to read the file in first. More generally, you need to spend some time with an introductory R tutorial. There are many, including the Introduction to R shipped with every copy of R, as well as the ones listed on the R website at http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html.
Best, Ista On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Sschratz87 <samuel.schr...@smail.astate.edu> wrote: > Hello. I am new to R here and I am coming across a small error in my code I > am trying to run. I am trying to make a table of some value from a folder on > my computer. I was able to pull a txt file from the folder and make bar > graphs etc... however now I cannot do anything from this file and R is > throwing errors at me from every direction. I will paste what I am trying > to do. > >> table(Squid$YEAR) > Error in table(Squid$YEAR) : object 'Squid' not found >> table(Squid$MONTH,Squid$YEAR) > Error in table(Squid$MONTH, Squid$YEAR) : object 'Squid' not found >> setwd("/Users/SamSchratz/Desktop/Spring 2014/Taking/Bio Stats/Lab/Lab 2 - >> Descriptive Statistics") > Error in setwd("/Users/SamSchratz/Desktop/Spring 2014/Taking/Bio > Stats/Lab/Lab 2 - Descriptive Statistics") : > cannot change working directory > > It is confusing because I was able to run this earlier: > barplot(table(Squid$MONTH,Squid$YEAR),main="Sampling by Year and > Month",xlab="Year and Month", ylab="Sampling Size") > > and got: > <http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4684710/SquidYearMonth.png> > > Thoughts? I appreciate whatever you can tell me... > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Not-able-to-find-files-in-working-directory-tp4684710.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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ 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.