Hi!
'The bizarre thing is this error comes from using read.table'
Not bizarre, read.table is a R-function built with the R-function scan
(you can look the code simply by command read.table at the R-prompt).
'Error in scan("tree.dat") : "scan" expected a real, got "https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Nirvan Sunderam wrote:
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> everytime i try to read in data i get the following error:
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> Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec = dec, :
> line 3 did not have 5 elements
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> it was my understanding it wasn't necessary to specifiy
everytime i try to read in data i get the following error:
Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec = dec, :
line 3 did not have 5 elements
it was my understanding it wasn't necessary to specifiy all defaults. The bizarre
thing is this error comes from us