[R] subtract 2 columns in a data.frame -- found the problem

[Ulrich Leopold]

Dear list,

sorry for having bothering you. I found the problem. It was the a stupid 
error made by me. R could not recognise the variable as it is of course case 
sensitive for names. So I specified the wrong variable name and R did 
complain about it with "numeric(0)".

Ulrich

Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> Ulrich Leopold <uleopold at science.uva.nl> writes:
> 
> 
>>Dear list,
>>
>>could someone point me to the right command to subtract 2 columns in a
>>data.frame. Might be a bit embarrassing question. But I cannot figure
>>out how to do this simple command in R.
> 
> 
> E.g.,
> 
> mydata$difference <- mydata$x - mydata$y
> 

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