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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 14/07/2016 6:49 PM, Christa Rose 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.

I don't think that is the problem.  The error message
>
> 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

indicates that it found the file, but is confused by the content of it.

> 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

This warning suggests that the file is not really a plain text file, but 
is some binary format, e.g. a file produced by Word or similar.

> 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??

How did you produce the file Ran_mine_play_data.txt?  If you saved it 
from Word, you need to tell it to save in plain Ascii format.  I don't 
have a copy of Word to look at, so I can't tell you how that is 
described, but it is probably something like "Text (.txt)".

Duncan Murdoch