You have to read the data into an object: e.g.,

mydata <- read.delim("Filename.txt", header=TRUE)

and then you can access the data with 'mydata'.  If you had "test" as a
column header,then

mydata$test

will access that data.

On 7/3/07, Susie Iredale <skewsie@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> I am a new R user and I have finally imported my data using
> >read.delim("Filename.txt", header=TRUE) after some difficulty, by
> changing file directories (a hint to anyone who might be stuck there).
>
> However, I am now stuck trying to use my data.  When I try to use
> data.frame("filename.txt") it tells me object not found, which makes it
> difficult to use attach() or with().  How do I get R to recognize my data?
>
> Thanks,
> Susie
> PhD Student UCI
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