R help - Aug 2014 - object of type 'closure' is not subsettable

Dear All,

I am getting this error: Error in boxplot$Month : object of type
'closure'
is not subsettable

The following is the codes i am using to produce the boxplot I need for
this daily rainfall data.

## reading the data
rm(list=ls(all=TRUE))
Bungoma=read.csv("/home/fredo/Documents/Maseno/Data/Bungoma_2.csv")
attach(Bungoma)
head(Bungoma)
tail(Bungoma)
summary(Bungoma)
# removing missing values
Bungoma <- na.omit(Bungoma)
summary(Bungoma)
###### split the data by month and boxplot for 0.85mm as the threshold
box_plot=Bungoma[Bungoma$Rain>0.85,]
head(box_plot)
bungoma_boxplot=split(box_plot$Rain,box_plot$Month)
head(bungoma_boxplot)
boxplot(bungoma_boxplot,
names=c("J","F","M","A","M","J","J","A","S","O","N","D"),width
table(boxplot$Month))
title(main="Boxplot of Rain for each month")

Any idea is welcome on how I can make it and overcome the error. Thanks.

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On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Frederic Ntirenganya <ntfredo at
gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am getting this error: Error in boxplot$Month : object of type
'closure'
> is not subsettable
probably because your dataframe is box_plot while boxplot is the name
of a function.

Try
box_plot$Month

Sarah
> The following is the codes i am using to produce the boxplot I need for
> this daily rainfall data.
>
> ## reading the data
> rm(list=ls(all=TRUE))
>
Bungoma=read.csv("/home/fredo/Documents/Maseno/Data/Bungoma_2.csv")
> attach(Bungoma)
> head(Bungoma)
> tail(Bungoma)
> summary(Bungoma)
> # removing missing values
> Bungoma <- na.omit(Bungoma)
> summary(Bungoma)
> ###### split the data by month and boxplot for 0.85mm as the threshold
> box_plot=Bungoma[Bungoma$Rain>0.85,]
> head(box_plot)
> bungoma_boxplot=split(box_plot$Rain,box_plot$Month)
> head(bungoma_boxplot)
> boxplot(bungoma_boxplot,
>
names=c("J","F","M","A","M","J","J","A","S","O","N","D"),width
> table(boxplot$Month))
> title(main="Boxplot of Rain for each month")
>
> Any idea is welcome on how I can make it and overcome the error. Thanks.
>
-- 
Sarah Goslee
http://www.functionaldiversity.org

"boxplot" is a function ("closure"). You probably meant
"bungoma_boxplot$Month"?

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On August 5, 2014 4:33:33 AM PDT, Frederic Ntirenganya <ntfredo at
gmail.com> wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>I am getting this error: Error in boxplot$Month : object of type
>'closure'
>is not subsettable
>
>The following is the codes i am using to produce the boxplot I need for
>this daily rainfall data.
>
>## reading the data
>rm(list=ls(all=TRUE))
>Bungoma=read.csv("/home/fredo/Documents/Maseno/Data/Bungoma_2.csv")
>attach(Bungoma)
>head(Bungoma)
>tail(Bungoma)
>summary(Bungoma)
># removing missing values
>Bungoma <- na.omit(Bungoma)
>summary(Bungoma)
>###### split the data by month and boxplot for 0.85mm as the threshold
>box_plot=Bungoma[Bungoma$Rain>0.85,]
>head(box_plot)
>bungoma_boxplot=split(box_plot$Rain,box_plot$Month)
>head(bungoma_boxplot)
>boxplot(bungoma_boxplot,
>names=c("J","F","M","A","M","J","J","A","S","O","N","D"),width
>table(boxplot$Month))
>title(main="Boxplot of Rain for each month")
>
>Any idea is welcome on how I can make it and overcome the error.
>Thanks.
>
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