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> The function is lm(), not 1m(). Eric Berger is correct (except for the extra parentheses), but it is worth pointing out that variable names do not begin with digits. (You can use backticks, assign, & other features to create such names (e.g. to write the Orwellian assignment `2 + 2` <- 5L), but they are non-standard and you need special syntax to use them.) Maybe the font makes some characters hard to distinguish, but a vertical line at the start of a standard name must be lower-case 'l' or upper-case 'I', not '1' or a pipe symbol....

> > | mailing lists for longer-form discussions are unfamiliar, difficult, > and often intimidating for newcomers > > Um… what? While I know (via my own children) that folks nowadays use > multiple avenues of communication, it’s **really** hard to imagine email > as a **mechanism** being unfamiliar/difficult/intimidating. Moving to a > new mechanism wouldn’t alter the