[R] unprecise question on read.table() and the nortest package; was: (no subject)

[Uwe Ligges]

Wendy Peng wrote:

> Hi there,
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> I am trying to perform different normality tests in R. I have no problem
> when I use Shapiro.test( ). However, when I try to use any normality
> tests from the Nortest package, I kept getting this error  " Error in
> read.table(source, header = T, fill = T) : 
> 
>         'file' must be a character string or connection". I have no idea
> why because there was no problem with the read.table () in the
> Shapiro.test(). I had installed Nortest package already.


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Uwe Ligges


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> Thank you
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> Wendy Peng
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> BC Cancer Agency
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> Cancer Genetics Department
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