Hi Everyone, I am new R user and am trying to learn by reading the online manual "An Introduction to R" from the R web site. I am trying to practice using the scan() function as explained in the manual. For this I first created three vectors (one a character vector and two numeric one) and saved file "input.dat" in my working directory as:
> label <- c("Bill", "Tom", "Pat", "Will", "Sue", "Sam") > x <- 1:6 > y <- 6:1 > save(label, x, y, file = "input.dat") Now, when I try the scan() function as explained in the manual as below, I get the error message: > inp <- scan("input.dat", list("",0,0)) Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : scan() expected 'a real', got 'X' I have not been able to figure out what the problem is. I would appreciate if someone could please guide me as to what I am doing wrong. Regards, Tariq [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.