[R] Newbie question about read.table

[David Kaplan]

Here is what I'm doing

 birthweight <- read.table("c:/bw.dat", header = T)
> summary(glm(low~age,binomial))
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object "low" not found
>


Thanks all!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Cleland" <ccleland at optonline.net>
To: "David Kaplan" <dkaplan at UDel.Edu>
Cc: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Newbie question about read.table


> 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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