[R] Basic misunderstanding, or problem with my installation?

[David Parkhurst]

Thanks to the three people who saw what I missed.  I typed my
code in Libre Office as "<" followed by "-", and that program
converted those two characters into a single left arrow symbol.
I copied the commands from Libre into R without noticing that
that had happened.  Wierd.

On 12/31/2013 7:54 PM, Sarah Goslee wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Your code is showing up here with an arrow symbols. If it's an actual
> cut and paste, that's your problem: assignment in R is the two-character
> <- and not an arrow symbol.Â
>
> Otherwise your code looks fine.
>
> Sarah
>
> On Tuesday, December 31, 2013, David Parkhurst wrote:
>
>     I've just uninstalled and then reinstalled R on my windows 7 machine.
>     To test my understanding of data frames, I'm trying the following code.
>     (I plan to do other things with it, if it would only work.)
>     Here's the code, which seems pretty basic to me:
>     ls()
>     nums ← c(1,2,3,4,5)
>     ltrs ← c(“a”,”b”,”c”,”d”,”e”)
>     df1 ← data.frame(nums,ltrs)
>
>     Here's what happens when I try to run it:
>      > ls()
>     character(0)
>      > nums ← c(1,2,3,4,5)
>     Error: unexpected input in "nums \"
>      > ltrs ← c(“a”,”b”,”c”,”d”,”e”)
>     Error: unexpected input in "ltrs \"
>      > df1 ← data.frame(nums,ltrs)
>     Error: unexpected input in "df1 \"
>      >
>
>     Am I really misunderstanding the basics, or is there something
>     wrong with my installation?
>     David
>
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