this is what I do, IT READS THE TABLE, But then I am stuck, I removed the header
read.table("nigeria slr misc/Nigeria India /DBHHISTOGRAM.txt", header=FALSE) hist("nigeria slr misc/Nigeria India /DBHHISTOGRAM.txt"$V1) Error in "nigeria slr misc/Nigeria India /DBHHISTOGRAM.txt"$V1 : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors or > hist("nigeria slr misc/Nigeria India /DBHHISTOGRAM.txt",V1) Error in hist.default("nigeria slr misc/Nigeria India /DBHHISTOGRAM.txt", : 'x' must be numeric or with("nigeria slr misc/Nigeria India /DBHHISTOGRAM.txt",hist(V1)) Error in eval(substitute(expr), data, enclos = parent.frame()) : invalid 'envir' argument -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/reading-header-in-txt-file-and-making-histogram-tp4504813p4505886.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.