You cannot seek on a url() connection. Try downloading the file and reading it locally.
There's a bug in the function which forgets to open its temporary file: I will attend to that. On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Giovanni Petris wrote: > > I am trying to read an ftable using read.ftable, but I get the > following error message: > >> jobSatTable <- >> read.ftable("http://definetti.uark.edu/~gpetris/stat5333/jobSatisfaction.dat",skip=2) > Error in seek(file, where = 0) : no applicable method for "seek" > In addition: Warning messages: > 1: no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf > 2: no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf > > > I also tried to play with the argument col.vars, to remove blank > lines in the file, to remove the blank in "Not > satisfied". Unfortunately nothing worked. > > Can anybody give me a suggestion on how to read that table? > > Thanks in advance, > Giovanni > > ps: > >> version > _ > platform sparc-sun-solaris2.8 > arch sparc > os solaris2.8 > system sparc, solaris2.8 > status > major 2 > minor 4.1 > year 2006 > month 12 > day 18 > svn rev 40228 > language R > version.string R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18) > > -- 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.