Erin Hodgess wrote:
> Your data set has 5 variables; res$V1, res$V2....etc
>
> When you plot, you need to do:
> hist(res$V1)
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Yes, but it seems that there is only one row of data? If the intention
was just to read 5 numbers into a vector, then use scan(), not
read.table(). (A histogram is pretty useless with 5 values, though).
>
> 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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