On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > You cannot seek on a url() connection. Try downloading the file and reading > it locally.
You will need to edit it to fit the ftable format as well. > There's a bug in the function which forgets to open its temporary file: I > will attend to that. It was a bit worse than just that: fixed in 2.4.1 patched. > > 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.