[R] Data.frame query

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

r.e.darnell at ncl.ac.uk (R.E. Darnell) writes:

> I think I have a data.frame called "statlab".
> 
>  > is.data.frame(statlab)
> [1] TRUE
> 
> and I can perform summary, dim, ...
> 
> but when I try
> 
>  > attach(statlab)
> Error in attach(statlab) : attach only works for lists and data frames
...
> This has got to be embarrassingly simple.
> 
> Any one like to point out my error?

Well, it's not simple to point out from the clues given. Your R
version is a tad old, but I wouldn't expect that to be the problem.
The best guess is that statlab is not really a dataframe, but
something else with a "data.frame" class attached to it. Looking at
the output of str(statlab) could be informative.

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