[R] Mutate issue help needed

CALUM POLWART
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:31:28 -0000

Am I being "thick" here
..

mutate(data, *# text

Is interpretated as mutate (data, *

The star is the character...

(Data is the line above being piped)

Why have the comments been *'d?. Is that the source error or a posting
error here?

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, 14:57 Ivan Krylov via R-help, <r-help at
r-project.org>
wrote:

> ? Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:44:50 -0700
> Neotropical bat risk assessments <neotropical.bats at gmail.com>
?????:
>
> > fname <- "Buzz.txt"
>
> > All<- fname
>
> I think the code needs a call to read.table() or another function to
> read your data here. 'All' is still a string containing the name of
the
> file, not its contents.
>
> > All %>%
> > mutate(*#convert Date from chr to Date*
>
> This call expects 'All' to contain a data.frame-like object, not a
file
> name.
>
> HTML-based bold text doesn't work on this mailing list, so to make it
> easier for other people to copy & paste executable code from your
> messages, I would recommend composing in plain text:
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2024-December/480371.html
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Ivan
>
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