[R] R ON Mac

[Peter Dalgaard]

Corey Sparks wrote:
> Hi, it appears that your corrdinates contain commas, instead of decimal
> points, R sees the commas and immediatly thinks the data are text, you
> should replace the commas with decimal points in  a text editor.

Alternatively, set dec="," or use read.delim2() (if the file is
tab-separated).

> Corey
> 
> gedasg wrote:
>> hello, I have strange error.
>>
>>> gyliai<-read.table(file.choose(),header=T)
>>> summary(gyliai)
>>          x                y           gylis    
>>  307577,08:  1   6124296,56:  1   3,00   : 59  
>>  308613,01:  1   6124353,50:  1   2,80   : 51  
>>  313800,45:  1   6124530,65:  1   3,10   : 36  
>>  313840,17:  1   6124970,20:  1   2,90   : 32  
>>  313864,05:  1   6124991,68:  1   2,70   : 22  
>>  313869,26:  1   6125009,34:  1   3,43   :  5  
>>  (Other)  :393   (Other)   :393   (Other):194  
>>> coordinates(gyliai)=~x+y
>> Error in .checkNumericCoerce2double(obj) : 
>>   cannot retrieve coordinates from non-numeric elements
>>
>> Your version of R is up to date
>>
>>
>> Error in .checkNumericCoerce2double(obj) : 
>>   cannot retrieve coordinates from non-numeric elements - whats is that
>> ???? 
>>
>> I use Gstat, mass, and sp packages. any ideas why this error shows to me?
>> I check it on windows couple days ago it worked fine, but not on my mac, I
>> don't have windows pc at the moment :) so help me :)
>>
>> Gedas
>>
> 


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