On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 6:53 PM, David Parkhurst <parkh...@imap.iu.edu> 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?
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