printing a dataframe and getting the result I want!

[IsaanBoy]

Here is the input:
name<-c("Joe", "John", "Nancy")
sex <- c("M", "M", "F")
age <- c(27, 26, 26)
df <- data.frame(name, sex, age)
result <-data.frame(name$age, name$sex)
print(result)

comes back as:
Error in name$age : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors

but I thought I was creating a dataframe!
Also it automatically prints out the result of the last equation which is kind of strange...

[nirgrahamuk]

@IsaanBoy

data.frame(name$age,

ok. but 'name' contains c("Joe", "John", "Nancy") yet you wrote code to take 'age' from name ... name$age ?
try

result <-data.frame(df$age, df$sex)

or given that they aren't only in df but also in the global environment (i.e. based on how you went about making df)

result <- data.frame(age,sex)

[IsaanBoy]

Hello! I figured out to take out the $ and it worked fine. But I was unaware that I was in a global environement. How can I differentiate?
By the way, thanks for your time. It wouldn't be possible to get thru this muck without some direction.