I assume that when you read in the data, you assigned it to an object; e.g.,


myData <- read.table("yourFile")

you can then plot a histogram by:

hist(myData$V1)

you may need to reread "Introduction to R" that comes with the software.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:34 AM, maram salem <marammagdysalem@yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hi Group,
> I've a vector of 1000 numeric values for which I want to draw a histogram.
> I've read this vector into R with no variable name.I mean only the 1000
> values, which makes V1 the name of the variable by default?? Then I tried
>
> > hist(V1, breaks = "Sturges",
> +      freq = NULL, probability = !freq,
> +      include.lowest = TRUE, right = TRUE,
> +      density = NULL, angle = 45, col = NULL, border = NULL,
> + main = paste("Histogram of" , V1name),
> + V1lim = range(breaks), ylim = NULL,
> + V1lab = V1name, ylab,
> + axes = TRUE, plot = TRUE, labels = FALSE,
> +      nclass = NULL)
>
> It gave me this error:
> Error in hist(V1, breaks = "Sturges", freq = NULL, probability = !freq,  :
>   object "V1" not found
>
> I don't get what's wrong,( An R beginner)??
>
>
>
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