[R] " 'x' must be numeric"

[Douglas Grove]

It's much more helpful if you show the actual command you used.

Presumably you have a data frame 'd' and you've done

hist(d), and 'hist' has complained because d is not numeric,
d is a data frame that *contains* a numeric vector.

You need to give hist() that numeric vector, which you can do
in many ways, including: d$V1, d[,"V1"] and d[,1]

Doug


On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Naiara S. Pinto wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am importing data from a txt file and try to get a histogram, I get the
> message: "Error in hist: 'x' must be numeric".
> When I use mode R returns "List".
> However when I use srt I get:
> `data.frame':   456 obs. of  1 variable:
>  $ V1: num  0.6344 0.4516 0.0968 0.7634 0.7957 ...
> My file consists of one column only (no headers) and I can't figure out
> why I am getting this error message. Why does this happen?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Naiara.
> 
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