I would point out that the OP does not say that R is a part of the course, only that they are using it to do some work. R may be a tool of choice not a requirement and it is quite possible that the instructor does not know anything about R.
--- On Tue, 10/14/08, Daniel Malter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Daniel Malter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] problem using R > To: "'shradha mukherjee'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, r-help@r-project.org > Received: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 9:10 AM > Hi, get any of the manuals that are an introduction to R, > e.g. from CRAN, > which describe the steps of how to start in R. You can > google-search them > too. You will find what it takes to do that in there. > > Hints: > > 1. R is object oriented. That is, your read.table command > creates an object > Wdbc. It does not show you the content of this object > unless you call the > object. > 2. You have to tell hist() where it has to look for > "area". In other words, > hist() does not know that "area" is to be found > in "Wdbc". There are > multiple ways to do this. Again, consult an introductory > manual. > > Other than that I agree with Duncan, your teacher is being > paid for helping > you with these very basic problems. > > Cheers, > Daniel > > ------------------------- > cuncta stricte discussurus > ------------------------- > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im > Auftrag von shradha mukherjee > Gesendet: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:37 AM > An: r-help@r-project.org > Betreff: [R] problem using R > > Hi , > I am having serious trouble doing this homework. I am using > R for doing the > homework. I am having the following specific problem: > a) when I input the data using the command > Wbdc > <-read.table("wdbc.txt") > I do not see the data. > b) When I want to run histogram using command > > hist(area) I get an error > message, Error in hist(area) : object "area" not > found. > > I am attaching the data file I imported to R and a > screenshot of the > workspace. > Please help. > Thanking you > Shradha Mukherjee > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. __________________________________________________________________ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard tions in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca ______________________________________________ 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.
