[R] Can't Load Text Files

[Jia Ying Mei]

Hi,

Thanks, but I'm not sure I know what you mean by "insert a ENTER after 
the last value". Do you mean press enter after I write in the last value?

Jia Ying Mei

milton ruser wrote:
>  
>
> setwd("c:\\temp")
>
> #you need to insert a ENTER after your last value
> > df1<-read.table("testinput.txt", head=T, sep="\t")
> > df1
>      Date France Germany
> 1 3/15/07      1       2
> 2 3/10/07      2       4
>
>  
> > df2<-read.table("testdate.txt", head=T, sep="\t")
> > df2
>      Date
> 1 3/15/07
> 2 3/14/07
> 3 3/13/07
> 4 3/12/07
> 5 3/11/07
> 6 3/10/07
>
>  
>
> and don´t forgot to include and ENTER after last value.
>  
> Hope this helps,
>  
> Miltinho Astronauta
> brazil
>
>
>  
> On 7/23/08, *Jia Ying Mei* <jiamei at princeton.edu 
> <mailto:jiamei at princeton.edu>> wrote:
>
>     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
>
>     Date
>     3/15/07
>     3/14/07
>     3/13/07
>     3/12/07
>     3/11/07
>     3/10/07
>     Date    France  Germany
>     3/15/07 1       2
>     3/10/07 2       4
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