R help - Sep 2013 - Having problems with doing anything with my data sets

I just installed R on my computer but I have greatly reduced functionality.
For instance, when I import a data set, I cannot do anything to it: number
summaries, any means tests, variance, etc. Literally all of the options that
should be there are not.
Can anyone help? I am so lost!



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Hi,

Unless you've installed some sort of add-on GUI, R is a
command-line-driven environment.

Once you've imported your dataset (with read.table most commonly, but
you don't give us enough information to know what you're doing), then
an entire universe of commands is open to you, like
summary(mydata)
colMeans(mydata)

and so on. It sounds like you need to read the intro to R that came
with your installation, put together a reproducible example, and get
back to us with a clearer description of your problem.

Sarah

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:49 PM, maxzakh <maxzakh at ucdavis.edu>
wrote:
> I just installed R on my computer but I have greatly reduced functionality.
> For instance, when I import a data set, I cannot do anything to it: number
> summaries, any means tests, variance, etc. Literally all of the options
that
> should be there are not.
> Can anyone help? I am so lost!
>
>
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http://www.functionaldiversity.org

Hi:

I know that it is frustrating when something like what you describe occurs, but
realize that it  is also frustrating for anyone on the list to try and help you,
because there is no information to go on.  What would help is information like:

1.  Your OS and version

2.  How you did the install.

3.  How you imported the data and how you know the data was successfully
imported  (for example did you try a dataset that comes with R).

4.  The actual commands given and the error messages  

The usual "read the post guide" applies, but knowing how you did the
install would likely help in this case,

-Roy M.



On Sep 3, 2013, at 11:49 AM, maxzakh <maxzakh at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> I just installed R on my computer but I have greatly reduced functionality.
> For instance, when I import a data set, I cannot do anything to it: number
> summaries, any means tests, variance, etc. Literally all of the options
that
> should be there are not.
> Can anyone help? I am so lost!
> 
> 
> 
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