If you brought the data in from Excel, it is probably a dataframe. You probably need to read the "Intro to R" on how to access information in a dataframe.
You should at least show what you did. most likely VIQ is a column in your Excel file and depending on how you read it in, you would probably access via dataframe$VIQ On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:26 PM, MLE <emily.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am very new to R and the stats world. I have enjoyed working with R so far > but I have come across an error message in a very simple command that I am > unable to resolve. > > I bring data in through excel .csv files and check them to be sure R reads > them correctly and has everything assigned as it is in the excel file. It > looks good. But simple computations are not working > >> sd(VIQ) > Error in sd(VIQ) : object 'VIQ' not found > > I copied the object out of the R table of the data, I know it is correct. > > Thank you in advance and for understanding my greenness. > > Emily > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/object-not-found-tp4546367p4546367.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. -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. ______________________________________________ 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.
