[R] Newbie question about read.table

[David Kaplan]

Thanks all.  I'll give the various suggestions a try.

Best

David


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean O'Riordain" <sean.oriordain at gmail.com>
To: "David Kaplan" <dkaplan at UDel.Edu>; "r-help" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Newbie question about read.table


Hi David,

you might need to either:
a) attach(birthweight)
or
b) glm(low~age,binomial, data=birthweight)

refer ?attach / ?glm

cheers,
Sean

On 11/05/06, David Kaplan <dkaplan at udel.edu> wrote:
> Here is the code with the error
>
>  birthweight <- read.table("c:/bw.dat", header = T)
> > summary(glm(low~age,binomial))
> Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object "low" not found
> >
>
>
> The read.table function works fine and when look at the data it shows the
> variable names across the top.  The data come from SPSS which I read out
> into a .dat file.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sean O'Riordain" <sean.oriordain at gmail.com>
> To: "David Kaplan" <dkaplan at UDel.Edu>
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] Newbie question about read.table
>
>
> Hi David,
> Can you show us the code that you're trying to use?
> cheers,
> Sean
>
> On 11/05/06, David Kaplan <dkaplan at udel.edu> 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
> >
> >
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