[R] Error: unexpected symbol in [with read.table]

[Kate Ignatius]

Oops - error on my part.  Sorry.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ... and you should also know by now to cc the list and not respond just to me!
> Bert Gunter
>
> "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge
> is certainly not wisdom."
>    -- Clifford Stoll
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Kate Ignatius <kate.ignatius at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "reading in a tab delimited file using args"
>>
>> What I mean by that is that I'm using a bash script to call in an R
>> script and using the command: args <- commandArgs(TRUE) in my R
>> script.
>>
>> In my shell script I'm calling the R program as follows:
>> /path/to/R/R-3.0.2/bin/Rscript
>>
>> I'm not sure if that will help - sure you will all know if it doesn't.
>>
>> K.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ??
>>> Are you expecting us to guess what your code was from
>>>
>>> "reading in a tab delimited file using args" ?
>>>
>>> You've posted here before and should know by now that explicit code
>>> should be provided whenever possible.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Bert
>>> Bert Gunter
>>>
>>> "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge
>>> is certainly not wisdom."
>>>    -- Clifford Stoll
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Kate Ignatius <kate.ignatius at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> When reading in a tab delimited file using args I keep getting the error:
>>>>
>>>> Error: unexpected symbol in "Name index"
>>>>
>>>> Execution halted
>>>>
>>>> The code is this:
>>>>
>>>> a <- read.table(args[1],sep="\t",header=T, stringsAsFactors=F)
>>>>
>>>> When inputting the file directly, as follows, this produces no errors:
>>>>
>>>> a <- read.table("/path/to/file/filename.txt", header=T,sep="\t",
>>>> stringsAsFactors=F).
>>>>
>>>> The file is such:
>>>>
>>>> Name               index
>>>> Bob                  1
>>>> George             2
>>>> Dave                3
>>>> Eric                  4
>>>> .
>>>> .
>>>> .
>>>> .
>>>> Andrew            20
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything I should be looking out for that might be producing
>>>> this error.   Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
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