[R] Newbie question about read.table

Chuck Cleland ccleland at optonline.net
Thu May 11 19:53:28 CEST 2006


David Kaplan wrote:
> Hi
> 
> When I use the read.table function with header = T, I notice that it gives me the variable names along the top as I expect.  But, when I then attempt an analysis, e.g. regression, it doesn't recognize the variable names.  Am I missing a step.  
> 
> Thank you
> 
> David

   Are you assigning the result of read.table() to a data frame.  And 
then do you refer to that data frame in your call to lm()?  If that does 
not solve the problem, you may want to show us the code you are using.

Chuck

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