" I'm not creating a sector' Exactly, but your code (sector$exports) tells R to "find a variable called sector and then look inside of it for something called exports". It never bothers with the second part because it can't execute the first because it can't find anything called sector (as the error message says)
Also, please cc the list on all replies for archival purposes. Michael On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:19 PM, John Visagie <john.visa...@up.ac.za> wrote: > I'm not creating a sector - it is one of my variable headings. > > ---------------- > This message and attachments are subject to a disclaimer. > Please refer to www.it.up.ac.za/documentation/governance/disclaimer/ for full > details. > > >>>> "R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weyla...@gmail.com>" >>>> <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> 2011/12/07 09:17:29 PM >>> > > You never create a "sector" object inR so it can't be found. Perhaps you meant > > hist(SouthAfrica$exports) > > Michael > > On Dec 7, 2011, at 7:06 AM, "John Visagie" <john.visa...@up.ac.za> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> I am having a very basic error, but somehow do not know how to resolve it. >> I've read a dataset in .csv into R with two columns - sector, export. When >> trying to plot the data it says "sector not found" This is the formula. >> >> SouthAfrica<-read.csv(c,header=T) >>> hist(sector$exports,xlab="exports (MtCO2)",main="CO2 Exports") >> >> Error in hist(sector$exports, xlab = "exports (MtCO2)", main = "CO2 >> Exports") : >> object 'sector' not found >> >> Could somebody please assist? >> >> Kind regards, >> >> John >> >> [[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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
