Oops - error on my part. Sorry. On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... and you should also know by now to cc the list and not respond just to me! > Bert Gunter > > "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge > is certainly not wisdom." > -- Clifford Stoll > > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Kate Ignatius <kate.ignat...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> "reading in a tab delimited file using args" >> >> What I mean by that is that I'm using a bash script to call in an R >> script and using the command: args <- commandArgs(TRUE) in my R >> script. >> >> In my shell script I'm calling the R program as follows: >> /path/to/R/R-3.0.2/bin/Rscript >> >> I'm not sure if that will help - sure you will all know if it doesn't. >> >> K. >> >> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> ?? >>> Are you expecting us to guess what your code was from >>> >>> "reading in a tab delimited file using args" ? >>> >>> You've posted here before and should know by now that explicit code >>> should be provided whenever possible. >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Bert >>> Bert Gunter >>> >>> "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge >>> is certainly not wisdom." >>> -- Clifford Stoll >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Kate Ignatius <kate.ignat...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> When reading in a tab delimited file using args I keep getting the error: >>>> >>>> Error: unexpected symbol in "Name index" >>>> >>>> Execution halted >>>> >>>> The code is this: >>>> >>>> a <- read.table(args[1],sep="\t",header=T, stringsAsFactors=F) >>>> >>>> When inputting the file directly, as follows, this produces no errors: >>>> >>>> a <- read.table("/path/to/file/filename.txt", header=T,sep="\t", >>>> stringsAsFactors=F). >>>> >>>> The file is such: >>>> >>>> Name index >>>> Bob 1 >>>> George 2 >>>> Dave 3 >>>> Eric 4 >>>> . >>>> . >>>> . >>>> . >>>> Andrew 20 >>>> >>>> Is there anything I should be looking out for that might be producing >>>> this error. Any help will be greatly appreciated. >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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