"data" is the name of a base function in R. Functions are objects of type
"closure". You can find out more about this function by reading the help. If
you create your own object named "data" then your object will "hide" the base
function and you won't be able to use it when you want to. Type
?data
You used the read.csv function alright, but you did not assign the function
return value to a variable, so it just printed it and threw it away.
Try
dta <- read.csv("document.csv", header = TRUE )
str(dta)
summary(dta)
If you don't know whether some variable name you want to use is already
"taken", you can just type the name alone at the R prompt:
data
if it gives a not-found error then you should be safe to use it. A couple of
tempting names you should also avoid are
c (commonly used function for making vectors. Tempting because it comes after
"a" and "b")
t (the transpose function for matrices. Tempting for naming time variables.)
df (density of the f distribution. Tempting because data frames are very often
used object classes.)
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Dinuk Jayasuriya <dinuk.jayasur...@anu.edu.au> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>New user here - I include the following command in the prompt
>
>read.csv("document.csv", header = TRUE )
>
>and the output shows up.
>
>But when I include the following command
>
>summary(data)
>
>I get the following message "Error in object[[i]] : object of type
>'closure' is not subsettable"
>
>Can someone please advise why R is not reading my data?
>
>Thanks
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