Hello and thanks for your reply Hopefully, my answer arrives at the correct place like that (if not, I am sorry for bothering you, but please let me know...)
To sum up my procedure (sp is exactly the same thing as spr, I had just tinkered with the names while trying sth. to solve this problem) > sp<-read.table("c:/ratsdata/sp3.txt", col.names="sp") > xd<-density(sp) Error in density(sp) : argument must be numeric The suggested remedies yield the following > str(sp) `data.frame': 195 obs. of 1 variable: $ sp: int 11 10 10 12 25 22 12 23 13 15 ... > xd<-density(as.numeric(sp)) Error in as.double.default(sp) : (list) object cannot be coerced to double Hence, it does not seem to be a factor. Declaring it as numeric gives another error message, on which I haven't yet found any help in Google/the archive. Yours sincerely -- Christoph Hanck Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft Lehrstuhl für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Prof. Dr. Wilfling http://www.wiwi.uni-muenster.de/~05/ WWU Muenster Tel.: +49-251-83 25043 -- Christoph Hanck Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft Lehrstuhl für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Prof. Dr. Wilfling http://www.wiwi.uni-muenster.de/~05/ WWU Muenster Tel.: +49-251-83 25043 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html