Euphoria,
Also just consider re-saving the file as a comma separated file (or another
one that fits)



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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:18 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:

>
> On Feb 24, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Euphoria wrote:
>
>
>> Thanks to all who posted. After trying all of the above-listed options -
>> the
>> error is still popping up, but here is some progress:
>>
>> 1) I can read in the file just fine when I use the read.table statement
>> and
>> specify it as a tab delimited file using the code:
>>
>> two <- read.table("Z:/CCFPhenotypesTAB.dat", head=TRUE, sep="\t")
>>
>> But, my issue is with GenABEL and the load.gwaa.data statement - I need
>> the
>> file to be read into load.gwaa.data - unless there is another way to read
>> in
>> the phenotype file in GenABEL.
>>
>> Code:
>> mix <- load.gwaa.data (phe = "Z:/CCFPhenotypesTAB.dat", gen  =
>> "pedmap-0.raw")
>>
>
> The first line of that function body is this:
>
> dta <- read.table(phenofile, header = TRUE, as.is = TRUE)
>
> Notice that no provision was made for a supplied sep argument. Hack it so
> that it recognizes tab characters. Just changing hte extension designation
> will not allter the fact that iwas not designed to work with "tab" as a
> separator.
>
> Perhaps this as a replacement:
>
> dta <- read.table(phenofile, header = TRUE, as.is = TRUE, sep="\t")
>
> Or give the argument list a set of ellipses  , ...) and the above line some
> ellipses to receive the argument.
>
>
> --
> David.
>
>
>
>>
>> 2) Also, it might help if I explained how I came about the .dat file.  It
>> was originally created in excel as a .xlsx file, which I converted to a
>> tab
>> delimited .txt file. I just changed the .txt extension to .dat for it to
>> be
>> read in R for the GenABEL package.
>>
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> David Winsemius, MD
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