myotis at cix.compulink.co.uk (Graham Smith) writes:
> I apologise for this question, as I'm sure the answer has got to be
> obvious, but I am trying to follow the John Maindonald tutorial and have
> stumbled at the first page.
Link? (I suppose that I could find it, but it is you problem...)
> I have sussed out that I need to use the source command rather than the
> read.table command as illustrated in the tutorial, but the data isn't
> reading in properly with additional names at the beginning and end of the
> data. $value and $visible. I am obviously missing something here and would
> appreciate some help on what I'm doing wrong.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Graham S
>
>
> > austpop<- source ("austpop.r")
> > austpop
> $value
> Year NSW Vic. Qld SA WA Tas. NT ACT Aust.
> 1 1917 1904 1409 683 440 306 193 5 3 4941
> 2 1927 2402 1727 873 565 392 211 4 8 6182
> 3 1937 2693 1853 993 589 457 233 6 11 6836
> 4 1947 2985 2055 1106 646 502 257 11 17 7579
> 5 1957 3625 2656 1413 873 688 326 21 38 9640
> 6 1967 4295 3274 1700 1110 879 375 62 103 11799
> 7 1977 5002 3837 2130 1286 1204 415 104 214 14192
> 8 1987 5617 4210 2675 1393 1496 449 158 265 16264
> 9 1997 6274 4605 3401 1480 1798 474 187 310 18532
>
> $visible
> [1] FALSE
You don't normally assign the result of source(). Are you sure that you
don't just need
source("austpop.r")
?
Otherwise, maybe try
austpop <- source ("austpop.r")$value
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