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.

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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