[R] Can't Load Text Files

[Peter Alspach]

Jia Ying Mei

If I understand you correctly I think you need read.table().  Try:

?read.table

and note the sep argument (sep='\t')

HTH .....

Peter Alspach


 

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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jia Ying Mei
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2008 3:43 p.m.
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> Subject: [R] Can't Load Text Files
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've completely forgotten how to do R, and it seems I can't 
> even load simple files correctly.
> 
> I have two tab deliminated text files (attached, these were 
> test files of the larger data files I'm trying to work with) 
> that I am trying to load into R so that I can merge them. 
> They were originally excel files but I used "saved as" to 
> reformat to text. I don't know if it's relevant, but I use a mac.
> 
> These are the error messages I get:
>  > source("/Users/jiayingmei/Desktop/R/Testdate.txt")
> Error in eval.with.vis(expr, envir, enclos) : object "Date" not found
> 
> Error in source("/Users/jiayingmei/Desktop/R/Testinput.txt") :
>   /Users/jiayingmei/Desktop/R/Testinput.txt: unexpected symbol at
> 1: Date    France
> 
> I'm sure its something simple that is causing this, but I've 
> been away from R very long, and I've been trying to pick it 
> up today, sorry if this is a stupid post. I even tried to 
> shift through some of the guides and manuals out there, but I 
> can't seem to find help regarding loading a file (or placing 
> them in some directory so that R can find them). I know I've 
> been taught this most simplest of things, but obviously I've 
> forgotten just about everything.
> 
> Jia Ying Mei
> 

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