[R] Help on Histogram ~ Barplot

[David Winsemius]

Adding back context which was omitted by this Nabble user who still does not understand the mailing list conventions:

> On May 27, 2015, at 2:28 AM, Shivi82 wrote:
> 
>> Hello All,
>> I need help on creating a histogram for one of my data. The data is as below
>> (sample):
>> MFST_WT	Hours	PROCESS	Month	Weekday	Day of the Month
>> 6,828	13	       INBOUND	Mar	             Fri	13
>> 2,504	16	       INBOUND	Mar	             Fri	27
>> 20	        16	       INBOUND	Mar	             Fri	27
>> 10,262	16	       INBOUND	Mar	             Fri	27
>> 2,500	17	       INBOUND	Mar	             Fri	13
>> 3,938	16	       INBOUND	Feb	            Thu	26
>> 798	        10	       INBOUND	Feb	            Sat	14
>> 5,439	15	       INBOUND	Feb	            Mon	16
>> 
> D.Winsemius wrote:
> What I'm seeing here is the likelihood that the data object has been input incorrectly (or is a mess in the original file?) There appear to be commas in what would presumably be a numeric column and a column name with spaces in it. There is also misregistration of some lines of data possible with tab-characters that were eaten by Nabble's interface.  If you want help under these circumstances you should either respond with the first 20 lines of the original data file posted through a mail-client bypassing Nabble or post dput( head(objname, 20))

On May 28, 2015, at 6:13 AM, Shivi82 wrote:

> HI David,
> 
> So if I understand from your post below, when we import a file in R- we need
> to make sure that the variable names do not have any space nor they should
> be in special characters or not in comma format.

Well .... perhaps. I asked to see the first several lines of the data. If it really were a csv file, then there should not have been any commas in the first column when the R data-object was printed. Any spaces in the header row should have been converted to periods. That's what the `make.names` function does when it encounters spaces or special characters.

-- 
David.


> Please correct me I am wrong.
> 
> Now I have changed the file to a new file as RData.csv file and now when I
> use the below code it gives me an error 
> graph<- read.csv("RData.csv", header = TRUE)
> MonthlyWeight<-by(RData$Weight,names.arg = RData$Month,sum)
> 
> The error is : Error in by(RData$Weight, names.arg = RData$Month, sum) : 
>  object 'RData' not found. Whereas I checked using "getwd()" this file is
> saved in the working directory. 
> Please suggest. 
> 
> 
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David Winsemius
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