strange scan, count.fields

[Adrian Trapletti]

Does anybody understand what's going on here:

I have the following ascii file called "y.txt"


"USD-DEM" "USD-JPY" "DEM-JPY"
 0.344901 4.78712 4.442
 0.345715 4.7882 4.44189
 0.350657 4.79065 4.44177
 0.35347 4.79065 4.43616
 0.35368 4.78957 4.43622
 0.35361 4.78982 4.43669
 0.353821 4.79036 4.43622
 0.352767 4.78899 4.43634
 0.353119 4.78916 4.43545


In R I do the following:


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> x<-scan("y.txt")
Error: "scan" expected a real got ""USD-DEM""
> row.lens <- count.fields("y.txt")
> any(row.lens != row.lens[1])
[1] TRUE
>
> x<-scan("y.txt", skip=1)
Read 27 items
> row.lens <- count.fields("y.txt")
> any(row.lens != row.lens[1])
[1] FALSE
>


scan seems to produce some side-effect (not properly close the file?)
I am using Redhat 5.2 and in general R seems to be rather stable...

Thanks
Adrian

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