setwd("c:\\temp")

#you need to insert a ENTER after your last value
> df1<-read.table("testinput.txt", head=T, sep="\t")
> df1
     Date France Germany
1 3/15/07      1       2
2 3/10/07      2       4


> df2<-read.table("testdate.txt", head=T, sep="\t")
> df2
     Date
1 3/15/07
2 3/14/07
3 3/13/07
4 3/12/07
5 3/11/07
6 3/10/07


and don´t forgot to include and ENTER after last value.

Hope this helps,

Miltinho Astronauta
brazil



On 7/23/08, Jia Ying Mei <jiamei@princeton.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've completely forgotten how to do R, and it seems I can't even load
> simple files correctly.
>
> I have two tab deliminated text files (attached, these were test files of
> the larger data files I'm trying to work with) that I am trying to load into
> R so that I can merge them. They were originally excel files but I used
> "saved as" to reformat to text. I don't know if it's relevant, but I use a
> mac.
>
> These are the error messages I get:
> > source("/Users/jiayingmei/Desktop/R/Testdate.txt")
> Error in eval.with.vis(expr, envir, enclos) : object "Date" not found
>
> Error in source("/Users/jiayingmei/Desktop/R/Testinput.txt") :
>  /Users/jiayingmei/Desktop/R/Testinput.txt: unexpected symbol at
> 1: Date    France
>
> I'm sure its something simple that is causing this, but I've been away from
> R very long, and I've been trying to pick it up today, sorry if this is a
> stupid post. I even tried to shift through some of the guides and manuals
> out there, but I can't seem to find help regarding loading a file (or
> placing them in some directory so that R can find them). I know I've been
> taught this most simplest of things, but obviously I've forgotten just about
> everything.
>
> Jia Ying Mei
>
> Date
> 3/15/07
> 3/14/07
> 3/13/07
> 3/12/07
> 3/11/07
> 3/10/07
> Date    France  Germany
> 3/15/07 1       2
> 3/10/07 2       4
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