[Rd] Macintosh rm162 fails read.table() from sample (PR#2485)

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed Jan 22 08:55:06 2003


This is already reported and already fixed in R-patched.
The relevant report is PR#2469.

Neither that nor your report specified which Mac port this is, although I 
could guess from you use of `rm162'.
If it is happening in the classic MacOS port then perhaps Stefano could 
patch it: he is aware of the problem.

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 iceman@prado.com wrote:

> Full_Name: Chris Yager
> Version: rm162
> OS: Mac OS 9.2.2
> Submission from: (NULL) (67.117.145.197)
> 
> 
> As a new user I was running A sample session  from Appendix A  of  An
> Introduction  to R.  'mm<-read.table("morley.tab")'  failed.  Note that the 
> prior command, 'file.show("morley.tab")', succeeded.  Problem does NOT occur in
> version rm161.  
> NO other bug reports seem relevant.  
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> > getwd()
> [1] "Macintosh HD:Users:Bio:Documents:Intro BioStat:R:sample:"
> > file.show("morley.tab")
> > mm<-read.table("morley.tab")
> Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec = dec,  :
> 
> 	line 1 did not have 4 elements
> > help.start()
> If nothing happens, you have to open ` Macintosh HD:Applications (Mac OS
> 9):R:rm162:doc:html:index.html ' yourself
> > bug.report()
> Error in system(call, intern) : 
>  The function "system" is not implemented on Macintosh
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> Version:
>  platform = ppc-apple-macos
>  arch = ppc
>  os = MacOS
>  system = ppc, MacOS
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>  major = 1
>  minor = 6.2
>  year = 2003
>  month = 01
>  day = 10
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