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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Times New Roman">Hi,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Times New Roman">I recently downloaded R on window and running Rgui on NT. I have never use R before and trying to learn R by following An introduction to R. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Times New Roman">I generated a table of 900x5 in excel and saved as tab delimited txt file. I then do read.table but I keeping getting the following message</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Times New Roman">> data <- read.table("ML4mm25.txt", header=T, sep=" ")</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Times New Roman">Error in count.fields(file, sep, quote, skip) : </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Times New Roman"> can't open file ML4mm25.txt</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Times New Roman">and when I try to count.fields, again there is error message. I was able to use the same command to read the file into S-plus with no problem, can you tell me what is wrong? also, what is the value for quote?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Times New Roman">Thanks.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Times New Roman">Chuang Fong Kong, Ph D</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Times New Roman">Head, Microarrays</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Times New Roman">Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute - Research</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Times New Roman">St. Andrew's Place, East Melbourne</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Times New Roman">Victoria 3002, Australia</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Times New Roman">Tel: 61 3 9656-1796 or 1138</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Times New Roman">Fax: 61 3 9656-1411</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Times New Roman">e-mail: c.kong@pmci.unimelb.edu.au</FONT>
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