[R] read.table(..)..Help?

Ko-Kang Kevin Wang kwan022 at stat.auckland.ac.nz
Thu Nov 20 08:28:01 CET 2003


On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, forkusam wrote:

>  Hallo,
>  can someone please help me.
>  I have a proplem reading a file with more that one
> rows.
> e.g I used the function:
> p<-read.table(file="FILENAME ", header=TRUE,sep=";")
> and later used the data.Frame() function. 
> It functions when the file has only a row of
> variables.
> When I insert the second row I get an error message.
>  How do I do this

1) Have you read through the documentations?

2) Are you sure each field is separated by a semi-colon ";"?

3) Exactly what the error messages are?  It is kind of difficult to 
diagnose your problem without knowing the error messages!

-- 
Cheers,

Kevin

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