[R] R help

Erin Hodgess erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 04:00:44 CEST 2008


Your data set has 5 variables; res$V1, res$V2....etc

When you plot, you need to do:
hist(res$V1)



On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Debasish Roy <debauck at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I tried to read a dataset and then draw a histogram with a freqeuncy density curve fitted on the top of this.
> I used the command
>
> res <- read.table("C:/Documents and Settings/db/Desktop/res.dat")
> and found
> > res[1:5]
>        V1     V2     V3      V4     V5
> 1 -0.4806 0.5075 0.0491 -0.7985 -0.666
> Then I got the following when I troied to plot it
> > hist(res)
> Error in hist.default(res) : 'x' must be numeric
>
> Even I tried
> > hist(res[,2])
> which is showing a blank plot.
> My suspision is something is wrong in the way the data was read (with V1, V2, V3 etc). Can someone  please help me how to get rid of this problem ?
>
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Erin Hodgess
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