> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Goslee > Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 4:55 PM > To: David Parkhurst > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Basic misunderstanding, or problem with my > installation? > > Hi David, > > Your code is showing up here with an arrow symbols. If it's an actual > cut > and paste, that's your problem: assignment in R is the two-character <- > and > not an arrow symbol. > > Otherwise your code looks fine. > > Sarah > > On Tuesday, December 31, 2013, David Parkhurst wrote: > > > I've just uninstalled and then reinstalled R on my windows 7 machine. > > To test my understanding of data frames, I'm trying the following > code. > > (I plan to do other things with it, if it would only work.) > > Here's the code, which seems pretty basic to me: > > ls() > > nums ← c(1,2,3,4,5) > > ltrs ← c(“a”,”b”,”c”,”d”,”e”) > > df1 ← data.frame(nums,ltrs) > > > > Here's what happens when I try to run it: > > > ls() > > character(0) > > > nums ← c(1,2,3,4,5) > > Error: unexpected input in "nums \" > > > ltrs ← c(“a”,”b”,”c”,”d”,”e”) > > Error: unexpected input in "ltrs \" > > > df1 ← data.frame(nums,ltrs) > > Error: unexpected input in "df1 \" > > > > > > > Am I really misunderstanding the basics, or is there something > > wrong with my installation? > > David > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > >
And after you get your assignment operator straightened out, you may need to change the quote marks in your character vector. It looks like they may be "smart quotes" from a word processor, rather than the plain single or double quote marks that R will accept. Dan Daniel J. Nordlund, PhD Research and Data Analysis Division Services & Enterprise Support Administration Washington State Department of Social and Health Services ______________________________________________ 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.