Hi Jim,
On 10/20/12 13:36, Jim Holtman wrote:
how about supplying the context of the error. Show the lines in the file where
the error occurred.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Oct 20, 2012, at 7:21, Brian <zenli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> when supplying a vector of atomic vector classes to read.table, I get:
>> # column classes
>> colClasses=c("character", "character","numeric", "numeric",
"numeric", "numeric", "numeric", "numeric",
>> "numeric", "numeric", "numeric", "numeric")
>> # Error:
>> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines,
na.strings, (from #2) :
Line #2: (with 'skip=4', so really line 4, but the first line after the
'header', as indicated above)
LAE;201001010000;2;894.6;3.9;93.8;5.3;3.1;204
scan() expected 'a real', got '894.6'
>>
>> How is '894.6' not 'a real [number]'?
>>
>> Thanks for the ensuing enlightenment or punishment...
>>
>> Best,
>> Brian
>>
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my full command:
read.csv2(file=file, skip=2, na.strings = "-",
colClasses=c("character", "character","numeric", "numeric",
"numeric", "numeric", "numeric", "numeric"))
Also, sorry I forgot this:
R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
[1] C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets base
other attached packages:
[1] MASS_7.3-18
Thanks again.
Brian
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