Don MacQueen wrote: > However, for there to be a difference between Mac and PC means that > something else is going on. > > I would guess that the PC is set to a LOCALE for which "," is the > default decimal separator, and the Mac is set to a LOCALE for which "." > is the default decimal separator. (If locale settings affect the > separator, that is. I don't know for sure whether they do. See ?locales > to start learning more...) > > Either that or the input files are different on the two different > computers.
Locale settings are not supposed to affect how R reads files. They might well affect how other programs write them, though. E.g. cut-and-paste or save-as-text from a spreadsheet will come out differently in English and German locales. > > -Don > > At 7:07 AM -0800 1/14/10, Corey Sparks wrote: >> Hi, it appears that your corrdinates contain commas, instead of decimal >> points, R sees the commas and immediatly thinks the data are text, you >> should replace the commas with decimal points in a text editor. >> >> Corey >> >> gedasg wrote: >>> >>> hello, I have strange error. >>> >>> > gyliai<-read.table(file.choose(),header=T) >>>> summary(gyliai) >>> x y gylis 307577,08: 1 >>> 6124296,56: 1 3,00 : 59 308613,01: 1 6124353,50: 1 >>> 2,80 : 51 313800,45: 1 6124530,65: 1 3,10 : 36 >>> 313840,17: 1 6124970,20: 1 2,90 : 32 313864,05: 1 >>> 6124991,68: 1 2,70 : 22 313869,26: 1 6125009,34: 1 >>> 3,43 : 5 (Other) :393 (Other) :393 (Other):194 >>>> coordinates(gyliai)=~x+y >>> Error in .checkNumericCoerce2double(obj) : >>> cannot retrieve coordinates from non-numeric elements >>> >>> Your version of R is up to date >>> >>> >>> Error in .checkNumericCoerce2double(obj) : >>> cannot retrieve coordinates from non-numeric elements - whats is that >>> ???? >>> >>> I use Gstat, mass, and sp packages. any ideas why this error shows >>> to me? >>> I check it on windows couple days ago it worked fine, but not on my >>> mac, I >>> don't have windows pc at the moment :) so help me :) >>> >>> Gedas >>> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://*n4.nabble.com/R-ON-Mac-tp1013829p1013925.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Ă˜ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ 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.