[R] Help with reading data

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Nirvan Sunderam wrote:

> 
> everytime i try to read in data i get the following error:
> 
> Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec = dec,  : 
>         line 3 did not have 5 elements
> 
> 
> it was my understanding it wasn't necessary to specifiy all defaults. The bizarre thing is this error comes from using read.table.

> When I use scan I get the following error:
> 
> Error in scan("tree.dat") : "scan" expected a real, got "<!DOCTYPE"

You appear to be trying to read an HTML (or perhaps XML or SGML) file.  
That's unlikely to be in any of the formats R can read.  Have you
downloaded this from the web and saved in the wrong format?

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