[R] Please help: cannot import files from Windows into R

[Jim Lemon]

Hi Christa,
The error messages tell you that the file contains NULL characters,
which can cause problems with reading files. You can remove these
characters with a "hex editor". I am not familiar with those used on
Windows, but look at this Web page:

http://alternativeto.net/software/okteta/?platform=windows

The second error message simply tells you that there is no end-of-line
on the final line of your file. Look at the file with the directory
view "Details" and make sure that it is not an empty (zero byte) file.

Jim


On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 8:49 AM, Christa Rose <xarose at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can someone please help? The read.table command is not working for me I
> think because Windows has my account name stored as "Christa Rose" with a
> space in it. Is this a problem? I have tried many syntax iterations, and
> cannot get around this.
>
> Here is an example of the syntax I've used:
>> RanMinePlay<-read.table("c:\\Users\\Christa
> Rose\\Desktop\\Ran_mine_play_data.txt",header=T)
> And returned error messages:
>  in read.table("c:\\Users\\Christa Rose\\Desktop\\Ran_mine_play_data.txt",
> :
>   empty beginning of file
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In read.table("c:\\Users\\Christa
> Rose\\Desktop\\Ran_mine_play_data.txt",  :
>   line 1 appears to contain embedded nulls
> 2: In read.table("c:\\Users\\Christa
> Rose\\Desktop\\Ran_mine_play_data.txt",  :
>   incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'c:\Users\Christa
> Rose\Desktop\Ran_mine_play_data.txt
>
> Can someone help me resolve this??
>
> Christa Rose
>
>
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