[R] Read.table problem

[Christian Schulz]

Perhaps your data entrys delimited with comma, semicolon so you have
to use sep="," or sep=";" .

For tab-delimited data i take read.delim.

hope this helps.christian




----- Original Message -----
From: "ptremb17" <ptremb17 at po-box.mcgill.ca>
To: "R-HELP" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 3:24 AM
Subject: [R] Read.table problem


> Hi !
>
> I am new to R, and using the MAC version onto Mac OS 9.1. My question
concerns
> the problem I encounter when I try to read some data I have using the
> read.table function. I always get an error of type : Error in scan(file =
> file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec = dec,  :
> line 1 did not have 9 elements
>
> Here is my code:
>
> varnames <- c("names", "symbol", "price", "displ", "gas", "weight",
"reliab",
> "origin", "type")
>
> cardat <- read.table("PowerMac 7300:Logiciels de
> Statistiques:rm162:car02.txt", col.names=varnames,
> as.is=c(F,T,F,F,F,F,F,F,F,F))
>
> Can you advice me ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Pascale Tremblay
>
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