R does not find a variable

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This is my code:
SUBJECT$Sim<-as.numeric(SUBJECT$Sim)

Density curve

ggplot(datr, aes(x=Sim)) + geom_density()

R can't find the object Sim although when I do a head command it is listed and I tied to be sure that it was numeric. Can someone tell me what my error is and how to correct it?

head(datr)
SUBJECT.TIME.CMT.Sim.obs.prev_subject.rep.peak
1 1,2,11,7.35,7.55,1,1,1
2 2,4,11,4.68,4.22,2,1,1
3 3,2,11,7.06,6.1,3,1,1
4 4,4,11,3.97,3.13,4,1,1
5 5,4,11,3.3,3.02,5,1,1
6 6,2,11,6.74,6.67,6,1,1

ggplot(datr, aes(x=Sim)) + geom_density()
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object 'Sim' not found

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Could you please turn this into a self-contained reprex (short for reproducible example)? It will help us help you if we can be sure we're all working with/looking at the same stuff.

install.packages("reprex")

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3

Sim should be a column in datr. From your head call, it looks like it didn't get read in properly somehow—it's all one character variable called SUBJECT.TIME.CMT.Sim.obs.prev_subject.rep.peak of numbers in CSV format. Maybe you need read.csv instead of read.table?

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4

Yes, that resolved my problem. Read.(table connected all the variables so they could not be distinguished.
Read.csv put everything in the proper format.

5

ok, I will prior to my next post. My question was answered by a community member with the old format.