Christa, As others are noting, the file is not a text file.
Open the file in Notebook or Notepad. If the editor complains, then open it in Word. Save it as a "plain text" file. You will have to choose the file type in the "Save As" dialog. You may run into other issues such as the field separator. It is best to limit the file to a header line containing any field names separated by commas or tabs, followed by columnar data, again with values separated by the same sepator used to separate the field names. Any metadata can be maintained in a separate text file. All of this presumes that your file came from Word or a compatible word processor. If it came from some other program and the "txt" type was simply by you added when you saved the file, we'll need to know what program the data was created in. -- John ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
