It is clear that you have letters in the data you are trying to
process; that is the cause of the erro.  What was the 'scan' statement
you were using?  Were you expecting all numerics in the string?  The
error message is consistent with your input.

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:07 AM, gked <grigoriy.lyuks...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I know it's a common error and there is a lot of help available but still
> can't resolve the issue:
> all i am trying to do is to read a csv file from my folder and this is what
> i get:
>
> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,
> :
>  scan() expected 'a real', got
> '1,m,a,F,165,240,26.5,31,0.738,0.704,1.095,0.606,0.847'
>
> Can you help?
>
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What is the problem that you are trying to solve?

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