Re: [R] Newb question re. read.table...

2010-03-04 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:34:49 +1300 Rolf Turner wrote: > There are various ways to access components of a data frame: > > * plot(con$rel,con$len) > * plot(con[["rel"]],con[["len"]]) > * plot(con[,"rel"],con[,"len"]) > * with(con, plot(rel,len)) And: plot(len~rel, data=con)

Re: [R] Newb question re. read.table...

2010-03-03 Thread Rolf Turner
On 4/03/2010, at 10:50 AM, Steven DeRose wrote: > I'm trying to get started with R, on Ubuntu. I worked through the > tutorial, and have made a small tab-delimited subset of my data to try > out (10 cases with about a dozens variables). But I can't seem to figure > out how to actually refer to va

Re: [R] Newb question re. read.table...

2010-03-03 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi Steve, I think the problem is just that those variables are in the con data.frame. If so you have several options: 1) with(con, plot(rel, len)) 2) plot(con$rel, con$len) 3) attach(con); plot(rel, len) Best, Ista On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Steven DeRose wrote: > I'm trying to get starte

[R] Newb question re. read.table...

2010-03-03 Thread Steven DeRose
I'm trying to get started with R, on Ubuntu. I worked through the tutorial, and have made a small tab-delimited subset of my data to try out (10 cases with about a dozens variables). But I can't seem to figure out how to actually refer to variables. I presume I'm missing something very simple, but