[R] Error message "got a real'

[Duncan Murdoch]

David Kaplan wrote:
>    Yea, I checked that, but that wasn't the problem.  I'm sending the input and
>    a much smaller file.  It's in .csv format.  The input is for the Mac, and
>    I'm beginning to think it might be a Mac issue.  The program input lines
>    come from John Fox's program sem
>   

The test.csv file isn't a csv file (which is a text format, with comma 
separated columns).  It looks like your spreadsheet let
you name it with extension .csv, but didn't save it in that format.

By the way, posting the same question 6 minutes apart on two mailing 
lists is quite inconsiderate; please don't do that.

Duncan Murdoch
>    David
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>
>    Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
>      David Kaplan wrote:
>
>         Hi all,
>         I'm running the program sem on a Mac, but I'm getting a message that I
>      think
>         is quite general.  The error reads
>          Error  in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines,
>      na.strings,
>         :
>           scan() expected 'a real', got '10652)'
>         The 10652 is the sample size coming from a .csv file where I have
>      header =
>         TRUE.
>
>      It appears to be finding a parenthesis too.  That's not a real.
>      Duncan Murdoch
>
> References
>
>    1. http://www.education.wisc.edu/edpsych/facstaff/kaplan/kaplan.htm
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