On Jul 11, 2013, at 13:50 , Dante.py wrote: > Maybe you should set parameter "as.is" in read.csv to be false.
TRUE more likely... However, there's another issue: files[i,] is a data frame, therefore so is f[1] (a telltale sign is that it has rows and column labels). So f[[1]] is probably needed. > > > 2013/7/11 Jannetta Steyn <janne...@henning.org> > >> Hi Folks >> >> I can't see what I have done wrong in this piece of code. >> >> # Read filenames from csv file >> files <- read.csv(file="files.csv",head=FALSE,sep=",") >> >> # for each filename read the file >> for (i in 1:length(files)) { >> # f becomes the next row inthe file >> f<-files[i,] >> # the header to be used for the graph is in column 2 of f >> head=f[2] >> par(mfrow=c(4,2)) >> # the filename to be used is in column 1 of f >> con<-read.csv(file=f[1], header=TRUE, sep=',') >> tmp<-con$value2 >> data<-normalize_js(tmp,-1,1) >> time<-con$time >> # run the waveform analyser >> waveformanalyser(data,time,head) >> } >> >> I get an error: >> Error in read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, >> : >> 'file' must be a character string or connection >> >> When the error occurs f equals: >>> f >> V1 V2 >> 1 ANA110915004A_3PERIOD_TmAvg-rdata.csv Pre-DA >> >> and f[1] equals: >> >>> f[1] >> V1 >> 1 ANA110915004A_3PERIOD_TmAvg-rdata.csv >> >> >> Why won't it use the value of f[1] as a string for the file parameter in >> the read.csv line? >> >> All help would be apprecitated. >> Regards >> Jannetta >> >> >> >> -- >> >> =================================== >> Web site: http://www.jannetta.com >> Email: janne...@henning.org >> =================================== >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > > -- > ÕÅêÊ Dante.py > Ö‹É∏´óѧ09π¶Ê‡Ñ§ÓëÓœÓÃʇѧ◊¨Òµ > ¸öÈËÖ÷Ò“£ºhttp://dantepy.yslsg.org/ > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.