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Thierry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics, methodology and quality assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 thierry.onkel...@inbo.be www.inbo.be To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] Namens Patrick Schorderet Verzonden: woensdag 29 juli 2009 10:29 Aan: r-help@r-project.org Onderwerp: [R] Newbie in R: Reading .txt files and storing the 'numbers' in avector Hello everybody, I'm a newbie in R and just went through an introduction class recently. Here's my problem. I have 2 text files (.txt) with plain numbers ('doubles' for those who know c++) ordered into 2 columns as below: coordinate1 value1 coordinate2 value2 coordinate3 value3 ... ... coordinateN valueN I would like to write a small programme in which i would: 1. take all values of file 1 and store them in a vector 2. substract to those all values of file 2 (one by one) and store the result in a new vector 3. Create a sliding window of chosen size and calculate the mathematical average and store these averages in a new vector 4. Plot the different graphes with a bar plot So I wrote a c++ script that does the first parts and writes the averages in a output.txt file (which I have up and running). Unfortunately, I seem to fail in reading these as numbers and putting them into a vector (in the R environment). I can read the file , but this is what I get: > z=scan(file = "/Users/NCCRGENETICS/Desktop/testRnumbers.txt", what = "double") Read 19 items > z [1] "{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\cocoartf949\\cocoasubrtf430" [2] "{\\fonttbl\\f0\\fswiss\\fcharset0" [3] "Helvetica;}" [4] "{\\colortbl;\\red255\\green255\\blue255;}" [5] "\\paperw11900\\paperh16840\\margl1440\\margr1440\\vieww9000\ \viewh8400\\viewkind0" [6] "\\pard\\tx566\\tx1133\\tx1700\\tx2267\\tx2834\\tx3401\\tx3968\ \tx4535\\tx5102\\tx5669\\tx6236\\tx6803\\ql\\qnatural\\pardirnatural" [7] "\\f0\\fs24" [8] "\\cf0" [9] "13\\" // This is where my file "should" start reading the numbers I see in the window when I open it with textedit [10] "27\\" [11] "39\\" [12] "48\\" [13] "34\\" [14] "17\\" [15] "23\\" [16] "45\\" [17] "23\\" [18] "4\\" [19] "}" > Thanks so much to any of you who could provoid a little help... I'm getting nuts. Patrick ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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. Dit bericht en eventuele bijlagen geven enkel de visie van de schrijver weer en binden het INBO onder geen enkel beding, zolang dit bericht niet bevestigd is door een geldig ondertekend document. The views expressed in this message and any annex are purely those of the writer and may not be regarded as stating an official position of INBO, as long as the message is not confirmed by a duly signed document. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.