[R] problem with read.table

[Kong, Chuang Fong]

> Hi,
> I recently downloaded R on window and running Rgui on NT. I have never use
> R before and trying to learn R by following An introduction to R. 
> I generated a table of 900x5 in excel and saved as tab delimited txt file.
> I then do read.table but I keeping getting the following message
> > data <- read.table("ML4mm25.txt", header=T, sep=" ")
> Error in count.fields(file, sep, quote, skip) : 
>   can't open file ML4mm25.txt
> and when I try to count.fields, again there is error message. I was able
> to use the same command to read the file into S-plus with no problem, can
> you tell me what is wrong? also, what is the value for quote?
> Thanks.
> Chuang Fong Kong, Ph D
> Head, Microarrays
> Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute - Research
> St. Andrew's Place, East Melbourne
> Victoria 3002, Australia
> Tel: 61 3 9656-1796 or 1138
> Fax: 61 3 9656-1411
> e-mail: c.kong at pmci.unimelb.edu.au
> 
> 
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