You really need to read one of many beginners guides to R; but I will say this much:
YOUR_DATA <- read.table("nigeria slr misc/Nigeria India /DBHHISTOGRAM.txt", header=TRUE) then you should be able to plot it like I said previously. If that still doesn't work, you need to read the posting guide and provide a lot more info than you have. At the very least, copy and paste the results of the following str(YOUR_DATA) bamboohydraulics wrote > > 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-tp4504813p4505919.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.