Jia Ying Mei If I understand you correctly I think you need read.table(). Try:
?read.table and note the sep argument (sep='\t') HTH ..... Peter Alspach > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jia Ying Mei > Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2008 3:43 p.m. > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Can't Load Text Files > > Hi, > > I've completely forgotten how to do R, and it seems I can't > even load simple files correctly. > > I have two tab deliminated text files (attached, these were > test files of the larger data files I'm trying to work with) > that I am trying to load into R so that I can merge them. > They were originally excel files but I used "saved as" to > reformat to text. I don't know if it's relevant, but I use a mac. > > These are the error messages I get: > > source("/Users/jiayingmei/Desktop/R/Testdate.txt") > Error in eval.with.vis(expr, envir, enclos) : object "Date" not found > > Error in source("/Users/jiayingmei/Desktop/R/Testinput.txt") : > /Users/jiayingmei/Desktop/R/Testinput.txt: unexpected symbol at > 1: Date France > > I'm sure its something simple that is causing this, but I've > been away from R very long, and I've been trying to pick it > up today, sorry if this is a stupid post. I even tried to > shift through some of the guides and manuals out there, but I > can't seem to find help regarding loading a file (or placing > them in some directory so that R can find them). I know I've > been taught this most simplest of things, but obviously I've > forgotten just about everything. > > Jia Ying Mei > The contents of this e-mail are privileged and/or confidential to the named recipient and are not to be used by any other person and/or organisation. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete all material pertaining to this e-mail. ______________________________________________ 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.
