If you brought the data in from Excel, it is probably a dataframe.
You probably need to read the "Intro to R" on how to access
information in a dataframe.
You should at least show what you did. most likely VIQ is a column in
your Excel file and depending on how you read it in, you would
probably access via
dataframe$VIQ
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:26 PM, MLE <emily.hagan at gmail.com>
wrote:> Hi,
> I am very new to R and the stats world. I have enjoyed working with R so
far
> but I have come across an error message in a very simple command that I am
> unable to resolve.
>
> I bring data in through excel .csv files and check them to be sure R reads
> them correctly and has everything assigned as it is in the excel file. It
> looks good. But simple computations are not working
>
>> sd(VIQ)
> Error in sd(VIQ) : object 'VIQ' not found
>
> I copied the object out of the R table of the data, I know it is correct.
>
> Thank you in advance and for understanding my greenness.
>
> Emily
>
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