[R] Problem importing .txt file

[R. Michael Weylandt]

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It looks like it may be an encoding problem in the .txt file. If your
data allows it, try opening it up with a text editor and saving it
again as something like Latin-1. Everything looks ok on the R end of
things.

Michael

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Berneet Kaur
<berneet.kaur at ucdmc.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
>
>   Hello, I hope I am doing this correctly, though I am not sure if a response
>   will be posted somewhere or if I will get a direct response. I am trying to
>   import a .txt table in my class on R and for some reason, the header gets
>   altered and I can no longer read the data. No one in my class had this
>   problem and the instructors were not sure how to fix it.
>   Here is the text table:
>   Kind Fatness Wt
>   Ewe 4 10.3
>   Ewe 8 11.9
>   Ewe 11 15
>   Ewe 15 17.1
>   Ewe 15 18.7
>   Ram 5 12.4
>   Ram 4 14.3
>   Ram 10 16.6
>   Ram 8 18.8
>   Ram 14 21.9
>   Here is the code that I copied from the instructors handout (simple cut and
>   paste, no alterations):
>   Lambs = read.table("Lambs.txt", header = TRUE)
>   > Lambs
>   ï..Kind Fatness Wt
>   1 Ewe 4 10.3
>   2 Ewe 8 11.9
>   3 Ewe 11 15.0
>   4 Ewe 15 17.1
>   5 Ewe 15 18.7
>   6 Ram 5 12.4
>   7 Ram 4 14.3
>   8 Ram 10 16.6
>   9 Ram 8 18.8
>   10 Ram 14 21.9
>   > par(mfrow = c(1, 2))
>   > plot(Fatness ~ Kind, data = Lambs)
>   Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object 'Kind' not found
>
>
>   I think it is because the "Kind" header got altered into " ï..Kind" and it
>   can no longer identify the object.
>   Can anyone help?
>   Thanks
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