I am just beginning to use R 1.7.1 on Windows XP and can not do a simple> scan of a .txt file with integer data separated by tabs.
>(which isn't mentioned in scan()).
First I figured out that I need to open a connection to the file
It isn't mentioned because it isn't needed.
I'd try
read.csv(filename,sep="\t") # for tab-separated files
> But now when I scan, I get "Read 0 items". What can I do?
Shouldn't happen quite like that.
I have a file on my XP box, in my "My Documents" folder, called "foo.txt". It's a two-column text file, tab-separated. First column is the numbers 1 to 12. Second column is some random numbers.
> scan("c:/documents and settings/jason turner/my documents/foo.csv")
Read 24 items
[1] 1.00000000 0.05905332 2.00000000 0.21829890 3.00000000 0.07104709
[7] 4.00000000 0.67140721 5.00000000 0.44471572 6.00000000 0.75093844
[13] 7.00000000 0.40647603 8.00000000 0.85937071 9.00000000 0.31583605
[19] 10.00000000 0.77993103 11.00000000 0.55067598 12.00000000 0.25861385
Notice the "/" rather than the "\" as the directory delimiter.
Cheers
Jason
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