[R] import data troubles

[STOLIAROFF VINCENT]

HI R lovers,

I have been facing a petty trouble with datas' import :

I have a plain txt file (see attached file or the copy below) that I cannot
read either with scan or read.table


> scan(file="F:/Alt/HDG/Stoliaroff/Data/test.txt")
Error in scan(file = "F:/Alt/HDG/Stoliaroff/Data/test.txt") : 
        "scan" expected a real, got "ÿþ6"

> read.table(file="F:/Alt/HDG/Stoliaroff/Data/test.txt")
    V1
1  ÿþ6
2   \n
3    6
4    4
5    5
6    3
7    3
8   \n
9    6
10   4
11   5
12   3
13   3
14  \n
15   6
16   4
17   5
18   3
19   2
20  \n
21   6
22   4
23   5
24   3
25   2
26  \n
27 



My file is as simple as:

62.5000	47.5048	56.8500	36.4700	32.4500	
62.1500	47.0952	55.0500	35.5600	30.1500	
61.3300	45.2476	53.6500	34.8200	29.4900	
61.6600	46.2286	53.8500	35.2000	30.6400	
62.0000	47.3714	54.4400	35.1100	30.1600	
60.8500	46.7143	52.9900	34.4200	29.3400	
61.0900	46.4381	52.7600	33.9600	29.1000	
	

 <<test.txt>> 		

Does anybody have an idea of the cause of my problem?

Besides, I'd like to know if there is a function for importing datas from
excel file? I cannot find one...

Thanks a lot for any help
Sorry for my poor english and the possible irrelevancy of my questions

Vincent



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