The answer was that it was a operator (me) problem. The library that enables
get.csv is Hmisc and should have been loaded. thus:

<<myFirstChunkInLyX>>=
library(Hmisc)
x=csv.get(file="/Users/christiaanpauw/tmp/x.csv")
mean(x)
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2009/2/27 christiaan pauw <[email protected]>

> Hi Everybody
> I use R2.8.0 on Mac OS X. I set up LyX 1.6.1 to use Sweave today following
> the instructions on the LyX wiki. It seems to work fine. I can compile the
> test file I found on CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/lyx/)
> without a problem and the output looks very nice. In the test file the
> following R code is used.
>
> <<myFirstChunkInLyX>>=
> xObs <- 100; xMean <- 10; xVar <- 9
> x <- rnorm(n=xObs, mean=xMean, sd=sqrt(xVar))
> mean(x)
> @
>
> My problem is that I want to import data to use in my report. In the R
> source I currently use to analyse my data I import it through csv.get(). I
> have found that I cannot use csv.get() or write.csv() from within LyX. I
> don't seem to be able to use load() to get a .rda file in either. So now I
> am stuck because no data equals no report.
>
> Is this issue related to LyX, LaTeX or R?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Christiaan
>
>

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