[R] error in scan(...

[jim holtman]

It is clear that you have letters in the data you are trying to
process; that is the cause of the erro.  What was the 'scan' statement
you were using?  Were you expecting all numerics in the string?  The
error message is consistent with your input.

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:07 AM, gked <grigoriy.lyukshin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I know it's a common error and there is a lot of help available but still
> can't resolve the issue:
> all i am trying to do is to read a csv file from my folder and this is what
> i get:
>
> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,
> :
>  scan() expected 'a real', got
> '1,m,a,F,165,240,26.5,31,0.738,0.704,1.095,0.606,0.847'
>
> Can you help?
>
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-- 
Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

What is the problem that you are trying to solve?