[R] Plot error

Ista Zahn izahn at psych.rochester.edu
Sat Jul 17 17:03:59 CEST 2010


Hi James,

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:50 PM, James Platt <james-platt at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am a newbie to R, so apologies in advance.
>
> I created this simple table in excel, saved in tab delimited .txt:
>
> name value_1 value_2
> 1 bill       1            4
> 2 ben      2           2
> 3 jane     3           1
>
>
>>test <-read.table("\path\to\file", sep="\t", header=TRUE)
>
>>x <-c(seq["value_1"])
>>y <-c(seq["value_2"])

You lost me here. What is seq["value_1"] supposed to do? Please fix
your example.

>
>>plot(x,y)
>
> and i get this error
>
> Error in xy.coords(x, y, xlabel, ylabel, log) :
>  (list) object cannot be coerced to type 'double'
>
> What does this mean and how do i fix it?
>
> Thanks for the help, James
>
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Ista Zahn
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