R help - Oct 2010 - (no subject)

To Whom It may Concern,
I am *very* new to R so no answer can be too explicit or step-by-step. I have to
plot make a Normal quantile graph for a data set that looks like
this:density5.55.614.885.075.265.555.365.295.585.655.575.535.625.295.445.345.795.15.275.395.425.475.635.345.465.35.755.685.85
I begin with > data="name of file.txt"
I know I am supposed to begin with >qqnorm but I don't know what to do
next. I have tried a couple of dozen different codes I found on the Internet and
I always get some kind of error (usually about x or y not being defined). If 
you are able to send back an example of how to plot this, could you also send it
with code for the axis labels and title (if it's not too much trouble).
Thank you for any help or advice you can give me. I know this must be a simple
problem, but with no experience or examples, I am completely lost. Thanks - Dave
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This looks like homework and there are enough teachers on this list that we
frown on doing others homework for them (sometimes help if it is clear what help
is allowed by the teacher).

Some hints to get you started:

You should read the document "An Introduction to R" that comes with
every R install, section 7 covers reading data into R, which it appears you have
not done, but are expecting R to treat the name of the file as a number which
confuses it.

Section 1.7 discusses getting help, in short typing ?qqnorm and pressing enter
will bring up the help page for qqnorm along with some nice examples as the
bottom showing how to use it (and one even shows how to change an axis label).

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111

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> 
> 
> To Whom It may Concern,
> I am *very* new to R so no answer can be too explicit or step-by-step.
> I have to plot make a Normal quantile graph for a data set that looks
> like
> this:density5.55.614.885.075.265.555.365.295.585.655.575.535.625.295.44
> 5.345.795.15.275.395.425.475.635.345.465.35.755.685.85
> I begin with > data="name of file.txt"
> I know I am supposed to begin with >qqnorm but I don't know what to
do
> next. I have tried a couple of dozen different codes I found on the
> Internet and I always get some kind of error (usually about x or y not
> being defined). If  you are able to send back an example of how to plot
> this, could you also send it with code for the axis labels and title
> (if it's not too much trouble). Thank you for any help or advice you
> can give me. I know this must be a simple problem, but with no
> experience or examples, I am completely lost. Thanks - Dave
> 
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> 
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