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[Jeff Newmiller]

You desperately need to study your reference material more carefully or talk to your instructor... h109 is clearly something part of midterm_df and not an object on its own in your working environment. Also, read the help for sample.default and sample.lm... they work with different arguments when the first argument is a different kind of object.

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On October 3, 2025 4:54:42 PM PDT, R Jerome Anderson <rjerome.anderson using gmail.com> wrote:
>I can code summary(midterm_df$hv109) and I get the summary of variable
>hv109. No problem.
>
>Yet when I write the code:
>
>summary(hv109, data = midterm_df)
>
>I get this error:
>
>Error in h(simpleError(msg, call)) : error in evaluating the argument
>'object' in selecting a method for function 'summary': object 'hv109' not
>found
>
>If I write the code summary('hv109', data = midterm_df), R treats hv109 as
>if it were a character variable. It is not.
>
>Page 521 in Andrews *Doing Data Science in R* shows the data = [df]
>command. I thought it was straightforward. Why doesn't my code work?
>
>Any help w/ this would be appreciated.
>
>-- Jerome Anderson
>
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