[Lign251] Hmwk problem #4 - file-loading issue

[Roger Levy]

Hi Melanie,

I think you just need to specify it as brown$Count instead of 
brown$count (i.e., capitalized).

Roger

Melanie A. Tumlin wrote:
> Having successfully loaded the data file, I'm now receiving the 
> following message in response to the hist() command:
> 
> Error in hist.default(brown$count, freq = FALSE, plot = FALSE) :
> 'x' must be numeric
> 
> Any thoughts on how to fix this?
> 
> -- Melanie
> 
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> 
> Melanie A. Tumlin
> Department of Cognitive Science
> University of California, San Diego
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> 
> 
> On 14 Oct 2007, at 11:10, Josée Poirier wrote:
> 
>> Alternatively, you can specify the URL of the data file in your R 
>> command, and R will find the data:
>>
>>  x <- 
>> read.table("http://ling.ucsd.edu/courses/lign251/brown-counts-lengths-nsyll",header=T,quote="")
>>
>> josée
>>
>>
>>> Is anyone else still having problems loading the file into R? Even using 
>>> the code provided on the website, I get this message:
>>>
>>> Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
>>> In addition: Warning message:
>>> In file(file, "r") :
>>>   cannot open file 'brown-counts-lengths-nsyll', reason 'No such file or 
>>> directory'
>>>
>>> I'm assuming this means it's not looking in the right place, but I can't 
>>> figure out where the right place is. Any clues?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dan
>>>
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