[R] scan problems -- what can "what" be?

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to import a list of "structure" objects into R (data for BUGS,
> actually), but am having little success. In the help file for scan there
> dies not seem to be a list of valid values for the "what" keyword. Can
> anyone provide me with one? I have pasted in a sample input file that I am

There is no such list.  As the help page says, it is the *type*  of `what'
that counts.  So it can be an integer, logical, numeric, complex or
character vector, or a list containing such vectors.


> trying to import below this message. I have tried
> what=list(structure,structure,structure) and variations thereof.

Those are arrays.  Scan them as vectors and then add dimensions.

> Also, is there an easy way of searching the mailing list archives, so that
> I dont have to bother the list with silly questions like this one?
>
> Thanks,
> cjf
>
> list(
> move_n = structure(.Data=c(0.984,0.016, 0.000,
>             0.081, 0.904, 0.015,
>             0.000, 0.026, 0.974,
>             0.974, 0.026, 0.000,
>             0.052, 0.930, 0.018,
>             0.000, 0.014, 0.986), .Dim=c(3,3,2)),
>
> move_s = structure(.Data=c(0.506, 0.214, 0.280,
> 		0.048, 0.689, 0.263,
> 		0.002, 0.914, 0.084,
> 		0.451, 0.262, 0.287,
> 		0.062, 0.686, 0.252,
> 		0.002, 0.890, 0.108), .Dim=c(3,3,2)),
>
> fidel = structure(.Data=c(0.890, 0.055, 0.055,
> 			0.065, 0.870, 0.065,
> 			0.060, 0.060, 0.880,
> 			0.88, 0.06, 0.06,
> 			0.07, 0.86, 0.07,
> 			0.075, 0.075, 0.85),.Dim=c(3,3,2))
> )
>
> --
> Christopher J. Fonnesbeck       GA Coop. Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
> chris at fisher.forestry.uga.edu   University of Georgia
>
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