Dear Philipp Pagel and everyone else, Thanks for answering me. Answering your question, the messages are copied and pasted. My R is in Portuguese. So Erro = Error. I forgot to translate the last two error messages to English. I'll try to follow your suggestion and use a generic source, and specified the columns arguments. I was able to read those files when I used .csv files. But I got stuck again, and I'm pretty sure that is because I'm not specifying correctly the columns to be read. Let's see how far I can go today! Thanks again! Priscila -- Priscila Grynberg, B.Sc., M.Sc. Doutoranda em Bioinformática (Bioinformatics D.Sc student) Laboratório de Genética Bioquímica Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Tel: +55 31 3409-2628 CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8808643075395963 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]