[R] R newbie attempting to plot data

[Chuck Cleland]

Rex Eastbourne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just started using R and am having trouble with the below error:
> 
> I type:
> 
>> df <- read.csv("/home/rex/Desktop/mytable.csv")
> 
> which gives me what I want:
> 
> ...
> 639 2006-05-26 16:46:54     4   16
> 640 2006-05-26 17:05:36     5   17
> 641 2006-05-26 17:30:48     6   17
> 
> But now I try:
> 
>> plot(df[4],df[3])
> Error in pmatch(x, table, duplicates.ok) :
>         argument is not of mode character

You probably intended:

plot(df[,4],df[,3])

> Any ideas? I tried read.table and importing the data from MySQL too; same
> error.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rex
> 
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