[R] Reading a file in R

[Uwe Ligges]

Mesomeris, Spyros [CIR] wrote:

> Thanks David,
> 
> It has actually worked, the problem was the formatting of the N/A values
> in Excel. R apparently doesn't like to see #N/A that Excel produces if a
> formula cannot be returned. So, saving the file as csv (comma delimited)
> file and removing all the #N/A observations, leaving those cells empty,
> and then uploading the file into R, works fine. 
> 
> I hope this is helpful for other users as well


Well, you could also tell R to read it by setting arguemnts "na.strings" 
and "comment.char" appropriately.

Uwe Ligges

> Thanks again
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Barron [mailto:mothsailor at googlemail.com] 
> Sent: 19 September 2006 11:33
> To: Mesomeris, Spyros [CIR]; r-help
> Subject: Re: [R] Reading a file in R
> 
> I think that command should work (assuming that it is *comma* rather
> than semi-colon delimited, which is used in countries where a comma is
> used as a decimal point, in which case you should use read.csv2
> instead).  So,  is your data definitely as clean as you think. Have you
> looked at the data in a text editor?  What are the dimensions of the
> resulting data frame?
> 
> On 19/09/06, Mesomeris, Spyros [CIR] <spyros.mesomeris at citigroup.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>Dear R helpers,
>>
>>I am trying to read a CSV file in R called EUROPE (originally an Excel
> 
> 
>>file which I have saved as a CSV file) using the command
>>
>>EUROPEDATA <- read.csv("EUROPE.csv")
>>
>>EUROPE.csv is basically a matrix of dimension 440*44, and has a line 
>>of headers, i.e. each column has a name.
>>
>>Using read.csv I can't load the data into R properly. Although the 
>>first 20 columns or so are read in properly, some of the data from the
> 
> 
>>remaining columns are missing, eg. For Column 29, the loaded file 
>>cannot read the first 120 observations and puts NA in their place, 
>>whereas the rest of the column is read in properly! I find this really
> 
> strange.
> 
>>I have tried to use read.table and scan commands as well, with the 
>>header = T option, but still the problem is not solved. Please note 
>>the columns are formatted in the same way, and contain numbers (apart 
>>form the header row).
>>
>>Does anybody have any idea how I can read the data properly into R?
>>
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