[R] density(x)

[Winfried Theis]

Hello!
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 15:34, Christoph Hanck wrote:
> Dear experts, 
> 
> when trying to estimate an kernel density function with density(x) I get the following 
> error message with imported data from either EXCEL or text files:
> 
> Error in density(spr) : argument must be numeric.
Well, as R tells you: You should check, whether your data is of type
"numeric". Depending on the way you import the data "spr" this may not
be the case and you have to do 
> density(as.numeric(spr))
which should work... Besides: please read the guidelines for posting
(see http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html) giving some details on
the procedure you use to read in the data may have helped to give you a
precise answer!

Regards,

Winfried

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