Re: [R] Error in scan?

Obviously row 11 is incomplete. It may contain nothing more than a space or an EOL. Using the "fill=TRUE" argument to 'scan' or 'read.table' is your friend here. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Error-in-scan-tp4678976p4678982.html Sent from the R help mailing li

Re: [R] error in scan(...

It is clear that you have letters in the data you are trying to process; that is the cause of the erro. What was the 'scan' statement you were using? Were you expecting all numerics in the string? The error message is consistent with your input. On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:07 AM, gked wrote: > >

[R] error in scan(...

I know it's a common error and there is a lot of help available but still can't resolve the issue: all i am trying to do is to read a csv file from my folder and this is what i get: Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : scan() expected 'a real', got '1,m

[R] Error in Scan question

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