Thanks! yes it WORKS
Anne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mathieu Ros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Anne Piotet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [R] How to read in data
> >>>>> "AP" == Anne Piotet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait:
>
> AP> Hello, I'm new to R and in the process of testing it My first
> AP> question: I fail to read in my data (ANSI toto.txt file, tab
> AP> separated)
> >> test <-read.table("toto.txt")
> AP> Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open
> AP> connection In addition: Warning message: cannot open file
> AP> `toto.txt'
> >> test <- scan("C:\\toto.txt")
> AP> Error in scan("C:\\toto.txt") : "scan" expected a
> AP> real, got "No_D"
> >> test <-scan("test.dat")
> AP> Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open
> AP> connection In addition: Warning message: cannot open file
> AP> `toto.txt (and no, it is not read only or locked or whatever)
> AP> I use Windows 2000/XP
>
> I think
> read.table("C:\\toto.txt",header=TRUE)
> will do the job : the message you got on your first and third attempts
> means that you gave a wrong path to your file.
> otherwise, read the help for read.table carefully (header and skip
parameters).
>
> AP> second question...what are the size limits of statistical
> AP> files I can handle? I plan to analize plant datas (up to
> AP> 500'000 records, from which I will analize a restrictive set
> AP> of variates ) Even when broken down by some chracteristics,
> AP> the data to analize can have 50'000-100'000 records
>
> AP> Well thank for the help Anne
> de rien ;)
>
> regards,
>
> --Mathieu
>
>
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