The message
 "Error in profile$Y : object of type
'closure' is not subsettable"
means R thinks you are attempting to subset the function profile.

Pick a different name for your variable to avoid the name clash.



On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:18 AM, mattnixon <m.r.nixon@ex.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am attempting to write code which will read in my data which is of this
> form:
>
> X1        Y1        X2       Y2        ....       Xn        Yn
> 0          0          0         0                    0          0
> 1          0          1         255                 1          0
> 2          255       2         0                    2          255
> 3          0          3         0                    3          0
> 4          0          4         0                    4          0
> 5          0          5         0                    5          255
> 6          125       6         125                 6         0
> 7          0          7         0                    7          0
> 8          0          8         0                    8          125
> .
> .
> .
>
> With n~100. My current code deals with only 1 data set, n~1 (below):
>
>
> profile<-read.table("datav1.txt",header=T)
> attach(profile)
>
> lines<-profile[Y>100,]
> d<-lines$X
> i<-1
> l<-1:1:i
>
> while(i<30){
> l[i]<-(d[(i+1)]-d[i])
> temp<-i+1
> i<-temp
> }
>
> L<-l[l>22]
>
>
> I want to extend this to accept n data sets to see how L varies between
> each
> data set. The way I have been trying to do this is as follows:
>
> profile<-read.table("datav2.txt",header=T)
> j<-1
> lines[j]<-profile[profile$Y[(2*j)]>100,]
>
> etc.
>
> However this returns the message "Error in profile$Y : object of type
> 'closure' is not subsettable". Does anybody know if there is any way I can
> read in a file containing many data sets and save each data set as an
> element of some matrix before performing the calculations (above) on it? Or
> some other method to achieve the same thing?
>
> Any help or suggestions would be great! Thank you.
>
>
>
>
>
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