[R-SIG-Mac] A .csv question

[Roy Mendelssohn]

A guess, and only a guess, but a csv file at heart is a text file,  
and I would assume it has PC line-enders, which could cause problems.

-Roy M.

On Apr 8, 2008, at 11:11 AM, David Kaplan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> No doubt I'm writing to the wrong R list and some cranky person will
> flame me as a reminder, but I seem to have this problem just on the  
> Mac
> version of R.  Here is the scenario.   I am using SPSS on the PC to  
> save
> a file as a .csv.  I then bring this file into R and have it read the
> file as a .csv.  When I look at the file in Mac Excel, it looks like a
> regular spreadsheet without commas as I might expect.  When I run the
> model, I get the message
>
> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines,
> na.strings,  :
>   scan() expected 'a real', got '3196)'
>
>
> The 3196 is the sample size used for this analysis and it is  
> correct.  I
> can ask it to print the data and the correlation matrix, and  
> everything
> seems fine.  There are no additional characters (such as a  
> parentheses)
> in the file.  My students who are doing this analysis for a class
> assignment do not seem to have a problem on the PC, so I am  
> wondering if
> anyone has encountered an incompatibility problems.
>
> Thanks in advance, and I apologize if this is the wrong list.
>
> David
>
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