No tabs are being echoed, so your cut/paste is removing the tabs. What are you pasting from? (Not an R problem, of course.)
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Murray Jorgensen wrote: > 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 > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
