Re: [R] how to enter a string value

2012-11-12 Thread William Dunlap
xt. [1] "A line of text." Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf > Of alen > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 7:55 AM > To: r-help@r-

Re: [R] how to enter a string value

2012-11-12 Thread Gerrit Eichner
Alen, look at ?scan and there particularly at the argument 'what'. Hth -- Gerrit On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, alen wrote: hi, I want to know just enter a string value entering a numeric value is make with the function scan () or scan (nmax = ..) but it does not work for string my goal is to

[R] how to enter a string value

2012-11-12 Thread alen
hi, I want to know just enter a string value entering a numeric value is make with the function scan () or scan (nmax = ..) but it does not work for string my goal is to enter three string: name and surname and date of birth I try with this code but it shows me errors print ("enter the name