Dear R People: When I use data.entry for a new variable, the first entry is a NA The function works all right, but then I get a Warning message:> data.entry("xb",Modes="numeric")Warning message: NAs introduced by coercion Since the function works acceptably, should I just ignore the warning message, please? By the way, when I use data.entry on an existing variable, it works just fine. No warnings. R 1.8.1 for Windows. Thanks in advance for any help! Sincerely Erin mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu