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[Ko-Kang Kevin Wang]

> myotis at cix.compulink.co.uk (Graham Smith) writes:
>
>> I apologise for this question, as I'm sure the answer has got to be
>> obvious, but I am trying to follow the John Maindonald tutorial and
have 
>> stumbled at the first page. 
>
>Link? (I suppose that I could find it, but it is you problem...)

http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~johnm/r/dsets/


>> I have sussed out that I need to use the source command rather than 
>> the
>> read.table command as illustrated in the tutorial, but the data isn't 
>> reading in properly with additional names at the beginning and end of
the 
>> data. $value and $visible. I am obviously missing something here and
would 
>> appreciate some help on what I'm doing wrong.
>> Many thanks,
>> 
>> Graham S
>> 
>> 
>> > austpop<- source ("austpop.r")
>> > austpop
>> $value
>>   Year  NSW Vic.  Qld   SA   WA Tas.  NT ACT Aust.
>> 1 1917 1904 1409  683  440  306  193   5   3  4941
>> 2 1927 2402 1727  873  565  392  211   4   8  6182
>> 3 1937 2693 1853  993  589  457  233   6  11  6836
>> 4 1947 2985 2055 1106  646  502  257  11  17  7579
>> 5 1957 3625 2656 1413  873  688  326  21  38  9640
>> 6 1967 4295 3274 1700 1110  879  375  62 103 11799
>> 7 1977 5002 3837 2130 1286 1204  415 104 214 14192
>> 8 1987 5617 4210 2675 1393 1496  449 158 265 16264
>> 9 1997 6274 4605 3401 1480 1798  474 187 310 18532
>> 
>> $visible
>> [1] FALSE

Where did you get the austpop.r?  If you got it from the URL I pasted
above, then you shouldn't have this problem.  The austpop.R from the URL
does not have what you put above, it is like:
"austpop" <-
structure(list(Year = c(1917, 1927, 1937, 1947, 1957, 1967, 1977, 
1987, 1997), NSW = c(1904, 2402, 2693, 2985, 3625, 4295, 5002, 
5617, 6274), Vic. = c(1409, 1727, 1853, 2055, 2656, 3274, 3837, 
4210, 4605), Qld = c(683, 873, 993, 1106, 1413, 1700, 2130, 2675, 
3401), SA = c(440, 565, 589, 646, 873, 1110, 1286, 1393, 1480
), WA = c(306, 392, 457, 502, 688, 879, 1204, 1496, 1798), Tas. = c(193, 
211, 233, 257, 326, 375, 415, 449, 474), NT = c(5, 4, 6, 11, 
21, 62, 104, 158, 187), ACT = c(3, 8, 11, 17, 38, 103, 214, 265, 
310), Aust. = c(4941, 6182, 6836, 7579, 9640, 11799, 14192, 16264, 
18532)), .Names = c("Year", "NSW", "Vic.", "Qld", "SA", "WA", 
"Tas.", "NT", "ACT", "Aust."), class = "data.frame", row.names = c("1", 
"2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"))

You should source this (and only this) in.

Cheers,

Ko-Kang Wang



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Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
Postgraduate PGDipSci Student (Summer Research Assistant)
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
New Zealand

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