Hi David, Your code is showing up here with an arrow symbols. If it's an actual cut and paste, that's your problem: assignment in R is the two-character <- and not an arrow symbol.
Otherwise your code looks fine. Sarah On Tuesday, December 31, 2013, David Parkhurst 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 â c(1,2,3,4,5) > ltrs â c(âaâ,âbâ,âcâ,âdâ,âeâ) > df1 â data.frame(nums,ltrs) > > Here's what happens when I try to run it: > > ls() > character(0) > > nums â c(1,2,3,4,5) > Error: unexpected input in "nums \" > > ltrs â c(âaâ,âbâ,âcâ,âdâ,âeâ) > Error: unexpected input in "ltrs \" > > df1 â data.frame(nums,ltrs) > Error: unexpected input in "df1 \" > > > > Am I really misunderstanding the basics, or is there something > wrong with my installation? > David > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.stringpage.com http://www.sarahgoslee.com http://www.functionaldiversity.org [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
______________________________________________ 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.
