Object not found error - r

Firstly I need to explain that I've had MINIMAL training on R and have 0 knowledge of coding languages or programmes like R so please excuse me if I ask silly questions or don't understand something basic.
Also, I have tried to look at past topics/answers on this but I'm having a hard time relating the answers to my data so I apologise if this question has already been answered.
Basically I have a data set and I'm trying to find the mean of two variables (Peak flow before a walk in the cold, and peak flow after a walk in the cold) in this set. This is the entire code I've used so far:
drugs <- read.table(file = "C:\\Users\\Becky\\My Documents\\Asthmadata.txt", header = TRUE)
drugs
str(drugs)
mean.Asthmadata <- tapply (Asthmadata$trial1, list(Asthmadata$PEFR1), mean)
mean.Asthmadata
It works fine until the mean.Asthmadata. The data comes up in R just fine with the other codes but when I get to the mean and do the mean.Asthmadata [...] code, I keep getting the same error: "object 'mean.Asthmadata' not found"
My friend used the same code I did and it worked for him so I'm confused. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks
EDIT:
#BenBolker
This is my data set
trial1 PEFR1 trial2 PEFR2
Before 310 After 299
Before 242 After 201
Before 340 After 232
Before 388 After 312
Before 294 After 221
Before 251 After 256
Before 391 After 327
Before 401 After 331
Before 287 After 231
And here's all the code I've used:
drugs <- read.table(file = "C:\\Users\\Becky\\My Documents\\Asthmadata.txt", header = TRUE)
drugs
str(drugs)
mean.drugs <- tapply (drugs$trial1, list(drugs$PEFR1), mean)
mean.drugs
The R version I have has two versions: i386 3.1.3, and x64 3.1.3 – I've tried both but neither seem to do what I want. I'm also using Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. Hope I've included everything you need and I apologise if my formatting is off – I can't quite figure out how to format properly on here yet.
And the error I'm getting NOW is: “Error in split.default(X, group) : first argument must be a vector” when running the code Roland kindly provided. So I'm getting a different error each time I try it – it must be something I'm doing wrong.
Hope I've formatted that all correctly and included everything you need. Thanks :)

drugs <- read.table(header=TRUE,text="
trial1 PEFR1 trial2 PEFR2
Before 310 After 299
Before 242 After 201
Before 340 After 232
Before 388 After 312
Before 294 After 221
Before 251 After 256
Before 391 After 327
Before 401 After 331
Before 287 After 231")
In the current format you can calculate the mean before and after just by doing
mean(drugs$PEFR1)
and
mean(drugs$PEFR2)
What you may have had in mind was this shape:
drugs2 <- with(drugs,
data.frame(trial=c(as.character(trial1),
as.character(trial2)),
PEFR=c(PEFR1,PEFR2)))
I used with() for convenience -- it's a way to temporarily attach a data frame so you can refer directly to the variables therein.)
There's a bit of a pitfall in combining trial1 and trial2, as they get coerced to their numeric codes, which are all 1s in both cases, unless you use as.character() ...
you had the order of the variable to aggregate and the variable to group by backwards (you want to aggregate PEFR by trial, not the other way around)
mean.drugs <- with(drugs2,
tapply (PEFR, list(trial), mean))
## After Before
## 267.7778 322.6667

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> [,1]
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402 0.576824342
403 0.314110438
404 -0.710141482
405 0.079179458
406 0.876819478
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The numbers in the first "column" are the rownames of the matrix.
Since the objects in your question have differing names, it's not entirely clear to me if the following works like that.
So I would do something like this:
df=data.frame(ID=rownames(exam),X=exam[,1])
Otherwise please post the output of dput(exam) or dput(data)
Based on what I think you want to do, here's a working example, given the following data frame:
# generate random input data
data <- data.frame(ID=1:20, X=rnorm(20))
Tidyverse offers the cleanest solution:
require(tidyverse)
data %>%
arrange(X)
will sort in ascending order according to column x. Check the documentation for arrange for further details; you can do more complex things such as sorting by group, sorting on multiple columns (ie, specify a first column, and break ties based on successively sorted columns, etc). So what I would recommend would be to put your data into a data frame first:
data <- data.frame(ID=rownames(nuevos), X=nuevos[,1])
where you could substitute ID with whatever you want and then do the above. Add a dput of nuevos for more specific feedback. Note there are a million ways under the sun to do this not involving tidyverse (ie, sort as you mentioned, for instance); tidyverse just tends to make for the cleanest, simplest mechanism in my opinion (since it is plug and play with many other useful things, like ggplot, dplyr, etc) and is really a great way of thinking to get accustomed to for working with data frames, such as this.

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