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Olivier Crouzet
Sat, 04 Oct 2025 07:24:46 -0000

Hi,

As far as I can tell, I don't think the function 'summary()'
will accept the 'data=' argument: see help(summary). Probably the
reference you're mentionning (Andrews *Doing Data Science in R*) is
about another function but not summary().

Olivier.


On Fri, 3 Oct 2025 19:54:42 -0400 R
Jerome Anderson <rjerome.anderson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can code summary(midterm_df$hv109) and I get the summary of variable
> hv109. No problem.
>
> Yet when I write the code:
>
> summary(hv109, data = midterm_df)
>
> I get this error:
>
> Error in h(simpleError(msg, call)) : error in evaluating the argument
> 'object' in selecting a method for function 'summary':
object 'hv109'
> not found
>
> If I write the code summary('hv109', data = midterm_df), R treats
> hv109 as if it were a character variable. It is not.
>
> Page 521 in Andrews *Doing Data Science in R* shows the data = [df]
> command. I thought it was straightforward. Why doesn't my code work?
>
> Any help w/ this would be appreciated.
>
> -- Jerome Anderson
>
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