[R] simpleR or usingR package by Verzani

[Irene Mantzouni]

 Yes, you were right, I did not load the library. Now it works. I just installed R yesterday and I am still trying hard: for sure I will come back for more input!
Thank you:)

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Spector [mailto:spector at stat.Berkeley.EDU] 
Sent: February 15, 2007 2:57 PM
To: Irene Mantzouni
Subject: Re: [R] simpleR or usingR package by Verzani

Irene -
    After installing a library, you need to use the library command in order to make it available in the current session:

library(UsingR)

Once you do that, you can see the names of the functions and data sets that are available by typing

objects('package:UsingR')

There you will see that the function you mentioned is called "simple.freqpoly" -- in other words, the ".R" that you added to the end of the function name is not necessary.

Hope this helps.

                                        - Phil Spector
 					 Statistical Computing Facility
 					 Department of Statistics
 					 UC Berkeley
 					 spector at stat.berkeley.edu


On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Irene Mantzouni wrote:

> I am a new R user and so I thought I could start with "Using R for 
> Introductory statistics" by Verzani.
> In order to use some of the functions and datasets I have to install 
> the simpleR package which is is now inside the UsingR package. I did 
> so using
>> install.packages("UsingR"). However, the functions such as
> "simple.freqpoly.R" do not work.
> I also tried to install the Simple_0.4.zip available by the author, 
> but I get the following message:
>
> Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: 
> Warning messages:
> 1: error 1 in extracting from zip file
> 2: cannot open compressed file 'Simple/DESCRIPTION'
>
> I should also note that I use windows XP and the latest R version.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you!!
>
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