[R-SIG-Mac] error message re 'expected a real'

[Sean Davis]

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 6:13 PM, David Kaplan <dkaplan at education.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>
>  I sent this to the general list, but I wasn't sure if it was Mac related.
>
>  I'm running the program sem on a Mac, but I'm getting a message that I
> think is quite general.  The error reads
>
>  Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,
> :
>    scan() expected 'a real', got '10652)'
>
>
>  The 10652 is the sample size coming from a .csv file where I have header =
> TRUE.
>
>  Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Hi, David.  It looks like you have a parenthesis next to the number;
that would explain the error.  If that isn't the issue, you'll want to
include a self-contained example that reproduces the error.

Hope that helps.

Sean