The file TENSILE.DAT from the Hand et al "Handbook of Small Data Sets" looks like this:
0.023 0.032 0.054 0.069 0.081 0.094 0.105 0.127 0.148 0.169 0.188 0.216 0.255 0.277 0.311 0.361 0.376 0.395 0.432 0.463 0.481 0.519 0.529 0.567 0.642 0.674 0.752 0.823 0.887 0.926 except that my mail client has replaced the tab separators by blanks. If I paste this data into R 2.2.1 what I get is > strength <- scan() 1: 0.0230.0320.0540.0690.0810.094 1: 0.1050.1270.1480.1690.1880.216 Error in scan() : scan() expected 'a real', got '0.0230.0320.0540.0690.0810.094' > 0.2550.2770.3110.3610.3760.395 Error: syntax error in "0.2550.2770" > 0.4320.4630.4810.5190.5290.567 Error: syntax error in "0.4320.4630" > 0.6420.6740.7520.8230.8870.926 Error: syntax error in "0.6420.6740" Aha! I thought, what I need is scan(sep = "\t") but this generates the same error messages. Help! Murray -- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax 7 838 4155 Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk Home +64 7 825 0441 Mobile 021 1395 862 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
