[R] How to read a text table? A bit of trouble with Using R - An Introduction

[John Hendrickx]

Try TextPad, http://www.textpad.com/. There's an add-on for syntax
colouring for Splus, works for R as well.

--- Jonathan Baron <baron at cattell.psych.upenn.edu> wrote:
> >    Ok...So I actually *typed* the table with WordPad, using the
> Tab button
> >in order to separate the columns, and saved it in rich text
> format. As you
> >might have guessed, it didn´t work. I got a:
> >    Error in count.fields(file, sep, quote, skip,
> blank.lines.skip) :
> >        string terminated by newline or EOF
> 
> RTF is not what is meant by text.  What I am writing is text.
> Your email is almost text (perhaps even legal).  Look at the RTF
> file itself in an editor such as Emacs or (ugh) Notepad.  I don't
> know if Wordpad can even make text, although I think it can.
> 
> >    I cut and pasted austpop.R text content and saved it
> as...austpop.txt in
> >my working directory.
> >    Then, I went for the kill :-)
> >    > austpop <- read.table("C:/R/austpop.txt", header=T)
> >    but it read:
> >
> >row.lens=
> > [1]  9 11 11 12 12 15 14 15 11 14 15 16
> >Error in read.table("C:/R/austpop.txt", header = T) :
> >        all rows must have the same length.
> 
> The instructions you quoted said to use source() rather than
> read.table().  I have not tried it, but that may be worth a try.
> 
> Jon
>
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