Thanks to Peter and Erik - This advice resolved my problem.
regards
Norman Jessup
On 2/07/10 11:43 AM, Erik Iverson wrote:
Norman Jessup wrote:
I'm a new R user so this is possibly a naive question. I'm trying to
load an external CSV file into a dataframe using:
df_name<-read.table("myfile.csv")
myfile.csv should have 5 elements per row, though a percentage are
missing the last two elements (the commas are present as
placemarkers). However, R does not create the dataset but returns
the message:
line 1 did not have 2 elements
but examining the file shows that it does. These are the first 5 rows:
DARWIN,NT,800,-12.461334,130.841904
ALAWA,NT,810,-12.37896,130.874226
BRINKIN,NT,810,-12.364533,130.869394
CASUARINA,NT,810,-12.373112,130.883619
COCONUT GROVE,NT,810,-12.397685,130.852324
Is R complaining because the first two elements of each row are not
numeric, or am I doing something else wrong?
Thanks for your suggestions
You can use Peter's advice; also note there is a read.csv function. A
thorough reading of the ?read.table help page is very useful I've found.
There is also an R data import/export manual on CRAN.
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