[R] Error: not 'a real'?

[Jim Holtman]

how about supplying the context of the error.  Show the lines in the file where the error occurred.  

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On Oct 20, 2012, at 7:21, Brian <zenlines at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> when supplying a vector of atomic vector classes to read.table, I get:
> # column classes
> colClasses=c("character", "character","numeric", "numeric", "numeric", "numeric", "numeric", "numeric",
>                                            "numeric", "numeric", "numeric", "numeric")
> # Error:
> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  (from #2) :
>  scan() expected 'a real', got '894.6'
> 
> How is '894.6' not 'a real [number]'?
> 
> Thanks for the ensuing enlightenment or punishment...
> 
> Best,
> Brian
> 
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