Thanks all. I'll give the various suggestions a try. Best
David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean O'Riordain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "r-help" <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 2:05 PM Subject: Re: [R] Newbie question about read.table Hi David, you might need to either: a) attach(birthweight) or b) glm(low~age,binomial, data=birthweight) refer ?attach / ?glm cheers, Sean On 11/05/06, David Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the code with the error > > birthweight <- read.table("c:/bw.dat", header = T) > > summary(glm(low~age,binomial)) > Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object "low" not found > > > > > The read.table function works fine and when look at the data it shows the > variable names across the top. The data come from SPSS which I read out > into a .dat file. > > Thanks > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sean O'Riordain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "David Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:46 PM > Subject: Re: [R] Newbie question about read.table > > > Hi David, > Can you show us the code that you're trying to use? > cheers, > Sean > > On 11/05/06, David Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > When I use the read.table function with header = T, I notice that it > > gives > > me the variable names along the top as I expect. But, when I then > > attempt > > an analysis, e.g. regression, it doesn't recognize the variable names. > > Am > > I missing a step. > > > > Thank you > > > > David > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html