That should work: you are using it before the call to gam?

Try this (verbatim)

library(mgcv)
Final <- read.csv("Final.csv")

ls.str()
search()
sessionInfo()

gam(Atlantic ~ s(depth, bs="sos", k=4) + s(distance, bs="sos", k=4), data = 
Final)

and give the output. 

Michael 

On Jan 16, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Dontrece Smith <smithdon2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I used:
> 
>> Final <- read.csv("Final.csv", header=TRUE)
> 
> 
> On 1/16/12, Jorge I Velez <jorgeivanve...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Dontrece,
>> 
>> It looks like you do not have an object "Final" in your active session.
>> Could you please show us how you read your data, e.g., what commands you
>> used and what's the result of ls()?
>> 
>> As Sarah Goslee mentioned in an earlier post, you probably used
>> read.table() or read.csv() but you haven't told us (yet).
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Jorge.-
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Dontrece Smith <> wrote:
>> 
>>> Now, it read this:
>>> 
>>>> library(mgcv)
>>> This is mgcv 1.7-6. For overview type 'help("mgcv-package")'.
>>>> gam(Atlantic ~ s(depth, bs="sos", k=4) + s(distance, bs="sos", k=4),
>>> data = Final)
>>> Error in inherits(x, "data.frame") : object 'Final' not found
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 1/16/12, Jorge I Velez <jorgeivanve...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> If "x" is your data, then
>>>> 
>>>> gam(Atlantic ~ s(depth, bs="sos", k=4) + s(distance, bs="sos", k=4),
>>> data =
>>>> x)
>>>> 
>>>> will do.  See examples in ?gam.
>>>> 
>>>> BTW, how did you read your data in R?  What's the output of ls()?
>>>> 
>>>> HTH,
>>>> Jorge
>>>> *
>>>> 
>>>> *
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:29 PM, ruggeddon24 <> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> This is my first time running GAMs in R.
>>>>> My csv file has these column headings:
>>>>> 
>>>>> "X"         "Y"         "Sound"     "Atlantic"  "Blacktip"  "Bonnet"
>>>>> "Bull"      "Finetooth" "Lemon"     "Scalloped" "Sandbar"   "Spinner"
>>>>> "Abundance" "Diversity" "Depth"     "Distance"  "Width"     "System"
>>>>> "Channel"   "Profile"  "Bathy"     "Slope"     "Salinity"
>>>>> X is longitude and Y is Latitude.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I typed in the code below and received the reply "Error in eval(expr,
>>>>> envir,
>>>>> enclos) : object 'Atlantic' not found".
>>>>> 
>>>>>> library(mgcv)
>>>>> This is mgcv 1.7-6. For overview type 'help("mgcv-package")'.
>>>>>> help("mgcv-package")
>>>>> starting httpd help server ... done
>>>>>> gam(Atlantic ~ s(depth, bs="sos", k=4) + s(distance, bs="sos", k=4))
>>>>> Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object 'Atlantic' not found
>>>>> 
>>>>> I do not have a clue how to fix this problem. Do I have too many
>>> variables
>>>>> or do I need to remove my x and y from the file? This data is being
>>>>> used
>>>>> to
>>>>> assess the spatial distribution of shark abundance in relation to
>>>>> environmental variables. I really cannot remove the x and y anyway.
>>>>> Help
>>>>> would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>> 
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