[R] problem with read.table

[gb@stat.umu.se]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Kong, Chuang Fong wrote:

> 
> 
> > 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

Well, I think you can take for granted that  R doesn't find your
file ...

Is your file in the default directory? Try changing directory to
the place where your file is. You can do that somewhere in the menus.

You should normally not use count.fields.

Göran
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