Re: [R] Having problems with doing anything with my data sets

2013-09-03 Thread maxzakh
I really appreciate all the help and I am sorry that I did not post enough clarifying details. Turns out all that was wrong was the type of separator, I needed to use commas instead of white space haha. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Having-problems-with-doing-an

[R] Having problems with doing anything with my data sets

2013-09-03 Thread maxzakh
I just installed R on my computer but I have greatly reduced functionality. For instance, when I import a data set, I cannot do anything to it: number summaries, any means tests, variance, etc. Literally all of the options that should be there are not. Can anyone help? I am so lost! -- View this

Re: [R] Having problems with doing anything with my data sets

2013-09-03 Thread Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal
Hi: I know that it is frustrating when something like what you describe occurs, but realize that it is also frustrating for anyone on the list to try and help you, because there is no information to go on. What would help is information like: 1. Your OS and version 2. How you did the inst

Re: [R] Having problems with doing anything with my data sets

2013-09-03 Thread Sarah Goslee
Hi, Unless you've installed some sort of add-on GUI, R is a command-line-driven environment. Once you've imported your dataset (with read.table most commonly, but you don't give us enough information to know what you're doing), then an entire universe of commands is open to you, like summary(myda