[R] R data opening problem

[Jeffrey Spies]

If I understand your problem correctly, I think you need to be doing:

summary(data.name)

The functions read.dta and read.spss both return things (data frames,
if you use the to.data.frame=T argument with read.spss).  So whatever
variable you set is what you should be doing a summary on.  In this
case, you are setting data.name to be the data frame returned by
read.dta:

data.name <- read.dta(file.choose())

If you'd rather, you could use:

kelleya <- read.dta(file.choose())
summary(kelleya)

Hope that helps,

Jeff.

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Alla Manukyan <allamanuk at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> I have just installed R for Windows. I am trying to open a stata file and I have
> a problem. I have used the following commands:
>
>> install.packages("foreign")
>> library(foreign)
>
>> data.name <- read.dta(file.choose())
>
>
> # then I choose a kelleya.dta file and click on open and then I use the
> following command:
>
>> summary(kelleya)
>
> Error in object[[i]] : object of type 'closure' is not subsettable
> I have also used opening an spss file using read.spss command but I get the same
> error message. Can you help me please?
>
> Alla
>
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