[R] Object not found using GAMs in MGCV Package

[Dontrece Smith]

Now, it read this:

> library(mgcv)
This is mgcv 1.7-6. For overview type 'help("mgcv-package")'.
> gam(Atlantic ~ s(depth, bs="sos", k=4) + s(distance, bs="sos", k=4), data = Final)
Error in inherits(x, "data.frame") : object 'Final' not found


On 1/16/12, Jorge I Velez <jorgeivanvelez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If "x" is your data, then
>
> gam(Atlantic ~ s(depth, bs="sos", k=4) + s(distance, bs="sos", k=4), data =
> x)
>
> will do.  See examples in ?gam.
>
> BTW, how did you read your data in R?  What's the output of ls()?
>
> HTH,
> Jorge
> *
>
> *
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:29 PM, ruggeddon24 <> wrote:
>
>> This is my first time running GAMs in R.
>> My csv file has these column headings:
>>
>> "X"         "Y"         "Sound"     "Atlantic"  "Blacktip"  "Bonnet"
>> "Bull"      "Finetooth" "Lemon"     "Scalloped" "Sandbar"   "Spinner"
>> "Abundance" "Diversity" "Depth"     "Distance"  "Width"     "System"
>> "Channel"   "Profile"  "Bathy"     "Slope"     "Salinity"
>>  X is longitude and Y is Latitude.
>>
>> I typed in the code below and received the reply "Error in eval(expr,
>> envir,
>> enclos) : object 'Atlantic' not found".
>>
>> > library(mgcv)
>> This is mgcv 1.7-6. For overview type 'help("mgcv-package")'.
>> > help("mgcv-package")
>> starting httpd help server ... done
>> > gam(Atlantic ~ s(depth, bs="sos", k=4) + s(distance, bs="sos", k=4))
>> Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object 'Atlantic' not found
>>
>> I do not have a clue how to fix this problem. Do I have too many variables
>> or do I need to remove my x and y from the file? This data is being used
>> to
>> assess the spatial distribution of shark abundance in relation to
>> environmental variables. I really cannot remove the x and y anyway. Help
>> would be greatly appreciated.
>>
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