Seems to read in fine; what errors were you getting?
> x <- read.table('/small.txt', sep='\t', header=TRUE)
> str(x)
'data.frame': 10 obs. of 7 variables:
$ Placename : Factor w/ 10
levels "Aankoms","Aapieshoek",..: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
$ X_coord : num 30.9 31.4
31.1 31.4 18.7 ...
$ Y_coord : num -26.2 -27.4
-29 -29 -33.5 ...
$ Jan.to.Dec.2006.Stroke.Density.per.sq.km : num 35.3 37.4
16.7 11.9 0 3.3 12 10.5 6.1 8.9
$ Jan.to.Dec.2007.Stroke.Density.per.sq.km : num 23.2 27.7
11.3 3.2 0.3 3 6.6 16.3 7.8 9.9
$ Jan.to.Oct.2008.Stroke.Density.per.sq.km : num 32.4 9.7 1
1.8 0.3 1 2.6 2.6 9.5 4.2
$ Total.Strokes.per.sq.km.for.Jan.2006.to.Oct.2008: num 55.5 37.4
12.4 5 0.5 4 9.3 18.9 17.2 14.1
>
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:06 AM, hannesPretorius<talk2han...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok i feel pretty stupid.. been trying to read a text file that contains
> heading in the first line in to R but cant. all i need to do is make a
> contour plot for a friend but after weeks i feel like giving up.. i included
> the first few lines of the file.. any help will be great
>
> Thanks
>
> Hannes http://www.nabble.com/file/p24777697/small.txt small.txt
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