[R] Reading contingency tables

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> You cannot seek on a url() connection.  Try downloading the file and reading 
> it locally.

You will need to edit it to fit the ftable format as well.

> There's a bug in the function which forgets to open its temporary file: I 
> will attend to that.

It was a bit worse than just that: fixed in 2.4.1 patched.

>
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Giovanni Petris wrote:
>
>> 
>> I am trying to read an ftable using read.ftable, but I get the
>> following error message:
>> 
>>> jobSatTable <- 
>>> read.ftable("http://definetti.uark.edu/~gpetris/stat5333/jobSatisfaction.dat",skip=2)
>> Error in seek(file, where = 0) : no applicable method for "seek"
>> In addition: Warning messages:
>> 1: no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf
>> 2: no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf
>> 
>> 
>> I also tried to play with the argument col.vars, to remove blank
>> lines in the file, to remove the blank in "Not
>> satisfied". Unfortunately nothing worked.
>> 
>> Can anybody give me a suggestion on how to read that table?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Giovanni
>> 
>> ps:
>> 
>>> version
>>               _
>> platform       sparc-sun-solaris2.8
>> arch           sparc
>> os             solaris2.8
>> system         sparc, solaris2.8
>> status
>> major          2
>> minor          4.1
>> year           2006
>> month          12
>> day            18
>> svn rev        40228
>> language       R
>> version.string R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
>> 
>> 
>
>

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