Hi Norman, If you still have not managed, google for "Econometrics in R" pdf paper by Farnsworth; it as helped me a lot. You will only need to replace Farnsworth's read function with the read.csv function suggested below by Erik.
Lexi -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Erik Iverson Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 3:44 AM To: Norman Jessup Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Files with Missing Data 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. DISCLAIMER:\ Sample Disclaimer added in a VBScript.\ ...{{dropped:3}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
