[R] error : unused argument(s) when boxplot

Tue Feb 16 16:18:15 CET 2010

On 16.02.2010 15:18, Pauline Haleux (JIC) wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am a total beginner in R, so sorry if this is the wrong place. I am using R 2.10.1 on a Mac (Mac OS 10.6.2).
> I have this small dataset :
> growth	sugar
> 75		C
> 72		C
> 73		C
> 61		F
> 67		F
> 64		F
> 62		S
> 63		S
> I have no problem reading the table, or getting the summary, but if I try boxplot(growth~sugar, ylab="growth", xlab="sugar", data=Dataset), I have the following error : ERROR:  unused argument(s) (sugar).

Works for me given Dataset is a data.frame with columns called growth 
and sugar. Probaly you had some issue with importing the data correctly.

Uwe Ligges

> Any suggestions ?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> PH
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