Re: [R] reading header in txt file and making histogram

2012-03-26 Thread chuck.01
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

Re: [R] reading header in txt file and making histogram

2012-03-26 Thread jaclea
If there is a header in your .txt-file you should have header=TRUE, if there is no header you should have header=FALSE. You have to save your dataset in a variable, for example: myData<-read.table("data.txt",header=TRUE) Then you can make a histogram by: hist(myData) -- View this message in co

Re: [R] reading header in txt file and making histogram

2012-03-26 Thread bamboohydraulics
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 i

Re: [R] reading header in txt file and making histogram

2012-03-26 Thread John Kane
Please provide your code as is requested in the posting guidelines. At a guess, you have read in your data into a data.frame called dhb with a variable called dhb. Try hist(dhb$dhb) and see what happens. To see a bit more of what you've got try str(dhb) to see what the sdtructure of the data is

Re: [R] reading header in txt file and making histogram

2012-03-25 Thread chuck.01
dbh is the column name. What is the name of your data? Lets assume your data is called "YOUR_DATA" then try: with(YOUR_DATA, hist(dbh)) OR hist(YOUR_DATA$dbh) OR hist(YOUR_DATA[, "dbh"]) etc... bamboohydraulics wrote > > Dear all > > I am a BEGINNER and have R on my Mac. I saved my