Sorry Sarah for my basic question: what does "a column was read as factor" mean?
When I type data , I obtain all the numeric values and the headears I added (Consommation,Cylindre,Puissance,Poids) Thanks 2015-04-20 18:40 GMT+02:00 Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com>: > What is the problem? One or more of your columns was read as factor, as > > str(data) > > would show you. To avoid this, you can add stringsAsFactors=FALSE to > the read.table command, but if you expect your data to be entirely > numeric then there's something wrong with it that you need to hunt > down. > > Sarah > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Sonia Amin <soniaam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I have written the following lines: > > > > > data<-read.table("C:\\Users\\intel\\Documents\\SIIID\\datamultiplereg.txt",header > > = FALSE, sep = "") > > colnames(data)<-c("Consommation","Cylindre","Puissance","Poids") > > result.model1<-lm(Consommation~Cylindre+Puissance+Poids, data=data) > > summary(result.model1) > > > > I obtained the following message: > > > > > > Call: > > lm(formula = Consommation ~ Cylindre + Puissance + Poids, data = data) > > > > Residuals: > > Error in quantile.default(resid) : factors are not allowed > > In addition: warning message: > > In Ops.factor(r, 2) : > > ‘^’ This is not relevant for factors > > > > > > Where is the problem? > > Thank you in advance > > > -- > Sarah Goslee > http://www.functionaldiversity.org > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.