On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Muhammad Rahiz <muhammad.ra...@ouce.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi all, > > How can I overcome the error "object of type 'closure' not subsettable" > > I ran the following script > seq <- paste(seq(1914, 1916, by=1), "*.y", sep=".") # make sequence > c <- 3 # total number of files > d2 <- file # creates dummy file
No it doesn't. It copies the object called 'file' into an object called 'd2'. What's the object called 'file'? If you've not created one already, its the 'file' function that R uses to read stuff from files. So when you do: > d2[[i]] <- file[[i]] - mean you are trying to subset from d2 (and from 'file'). If I do this: > file[[2]] I get your error message: Error in file[[2]] : object of type 'closure' is not subsettable So clearly you aren't doing what you think you're doing. Some hints: 1. Read a good introduction to R. You are making a number of fundamental mistakes here. 2. Run each line separately and check what value you get back by printing it. 3. Don't give your objects the same name as R functions (you're using 'seq', 'file', and 'mean'). Although this may work, it will confuse people later... Barry ______________________________________________ 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.
