[R] Scanning tab-separated numbers

[Murray Jorgensen]

I want to paste in the following numbers into a scan:

0.023	0.032	0.054	0.069	0.081	0.094
0.105	0.127	0.148	0.169	0.188	0.216

they are separated by tabs alone, unless my mailer has done something to 
the tabs.

Now have a look at this:

 > scan()
1: 0.0230.0320.0540.0690.0810.094
1: 0.1050.1270.1480.1690.1880.216
Error in scan() : "scan" expected a real, got 
"0.0230.0320.0540.0690.0810.094"
 > scan(sep="\t")
1: 0.0230.0320.0540.0690.0810.094
1: 0.1050.1270.1480.1690.1880.216
Error in scan(sep = "   ") : "scan" expected a real, got 
"0.0230.0320.0540.0690.0810.094"
 >

Platform: Windows XP   Release 1.8.1

I can't seem to scan in tab-separated numbers even when I try to tell R 
to expect that. (this may be related to the Sweave problem I mentioned a 
few days ago.)

Murray

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