Can you paste the line of data which caused the error? It will be much easier for other people to help you.
Best, KK On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Srdjan Santic <srdjan.san...@gmail.com>wrote: > I'm trying to read in a fairly large (3.5 Gb) csv file into R, using the > read.csv.ffdf() function from the ff package. > > Whenever the function comes up to a numerical value (such as 40.0, or 2 - > doesn't mater if there is a decimal point or not), it throws the following > error: > > Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, > : > scan() expected 'a real', got '"15"' > > > I've tried reading in a very similar file, albeit much smaller, using the > basic read.csv() function, and it loads correctly. But if I try loading it > with read.csv.ffdf(), it throws the same error. > > Any ideas? Thanks! > > Srdjan Santic > > [[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. > -- Qiang Kou q...@umail.iu.edu School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University [[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.
