Dear Radha, On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:03:38 -0800 (PST) Radha Chebolu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > could someone pelase help me with this? > > My data set's name is db1(say) and one of the > variables is var1. I gave the command: > hist(db1$var1). The values of Var1 are numbers. > I got an error which says: 'x' must be numeric. > Sometimes it works for other datasets and it's not > working for this dataset.
If db1$var1 really were numeric, you wouldn't get this error. It's not possible to tell what went wrong without more information. > Also, does R let us import > data from an excel spreadhsheet? > Perhaps the simplest approach is to copy the cells from the spreadsheet to the clipboard and read via read.table() or read.csv(). Remarkably, this was addressed on the r-help list earlier today; see the thread <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-February/064641.html> in the list archive. Other approaches are to output a csv file or to use the R-(D)COM interface (see http://cran.r-project.org/other-software.html). Regards, John > Thanks, > Radha > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
