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How to deal with error “$ operator is invalid for atomic vectors” in R?
This error occurs because $ operator is not designed to access vector elements. If we use $ operator to access the vector elements then R does not understand it and consider it invalid, therefore, we must be very careful about where we should use $ operator. It happens when we give a name to our elements and start thinking that we can treat them as data frame columns which is a wrong approach. To access the vector elements, we should use single square brackets.
Example
Consider the below vector −
> set.seed(1) > x1<-sample(1:10,20,replace=TRUE) > x1 [1] 9 4 7 1 2 7 2 3 1 5 5 10 6 10 7 9 5 5 9 9 > names(x1)<-LETTERS[1:20] > x1 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T 9 4 7 1 2 7 2 3 1 5 5 10 6 10 7 9 5 5 9 9 > x1$K Error in x1$K : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors
Here, we are getting the error that “$ operator is invalid for atomic vectors”. Now we should access the elements of the vector x1 with single square brackets as shown below −
> x1["K"] K 5 > x1["T"] T 9 > x1["A"] A 9 > x1[1] A 9
Let’s have a look at one more example −
> x2<-sample(1:100,10)
> x2
[1] 37 34 89 44 79 33 84 35 70 74
> names(x2)<-c("A1","A2","A3","A4","A5","A6","A7","A8","A9","A10")
> x2
A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 A10
37 34 89 44 79 33 84 35 70 74
> x2["A10"]
A10
74
> x2["A5"]
A5
79
> x2["A6"]
A6
33
> x2["A1"]
A1
37
> x2["A3"]
A3
89
Updated on: 12-Aug-2020
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