[R] Question on Import

Gerrit Eichner Gerrit.Eichner at math.uni-giessen.de
Mon Apr 25 10:49:22 CEST 2011


Hi, Georgina,

using quotation marks around the file name like in

> read.delim( "ken_data_try_anova")

might help.

  Hth -- Gerrit


On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Georgina Salazar wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have the data in a tab delimited text file titled "ken_data_try_anova." I
> tried to import it into R entering
>
>> read.delim(ken_data_try_anova)
>
> but received the error message
>
> Error in read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :
>  object 'ken_data_try_anova' not found
>
> I have another file called 10423nad.txt.
>
> I tried
>> data<-as.matrix(read.table(C:\Users\gtsalazar1979\Documents\TANOVA_1.0.0\10423nad.txt))
>> )
>
> but got the error message
> Error: unexpected input in "data<-as.matrix(read.table(C:\"
>
> How do I place the data where the import function can find it? Or, how do I
> correct my use of the import functions?
>
> Thank you for your time and patience! Any guidance toward a solution means a lot
> to me :)
> Cheers,
> Georgina To'a Salazar



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