On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Following Michael J. Crawley "Statistical Computing" on page 9 the worms.txt
> is
> required. After downloading it from the book's supporting website, which is
> http://www.bio.ic.ac.uk/research/mjcraw/statcomp/data/ I visually check the
> data
> against the book and they look identical. Then I do a read.table as suggested:
> worms<-read.table("C:/Programme/R/R-2.5.0/Data/Worms.txt", header = T).
Add the argument quote="" or quote="\"" to the call to read.table()
so the apostrophes in the file are not taken to be quotes.
> Typing "worms" to see the data, it's no longer the same: Four lines have been
> added to the beginning of the file. One is the header line and three lines are
> from further down in the file, i.e. lines 10,11 and 12 in reverse order.
> Please look at a copy at the end of this mail. If the first four lines weren't
> there, the data would be o.k. I tried different parameter settings in
> read.table
> but couldn't obtain any improvement.
>
> Please let me know, how I can correct this.
>
> Best regards
>
> Joerg
>
> > worms<-read.table("C:/Programme/R/R-2.5.0/Data/Worms.txt", header = T)
> > worms
> Field.Name Area Slope Vegetation Soil.pH Damp Worm.density
> 1 Oak.Mead 3.1 2 Grassland 3.9 F 2
> 2 Church.Field 3.5 3 Grassland 4.2 F 3
> 3 Ashurst 2.1 0 Arable 4.8 F 4
> 4 Field.Name Area Slope Vegetation Soil.pH Damp Worm.density
> 5 Nash's.Field 3.6 11 Grassland 4.1 F 4
> 6 Silwood.Bottom 5.1 2 Arable 5.2 F 7
> 7 Nursery.Field 2.8 3 Grassland 4.3 F 2
> 8 Rush.Meadow 2.4 5 Meadow 4.9 T 5
> 9 Gunness'.Thicket 3.8 0 Scrub 4.2 F 6
> 10 Oak.Mead 3.1 2 Grassland 3.9 F 2
> 11 Church.Field 3.5 3 Grassland 4.2 F 3
> 12 Ashurst 2.1 0 Arable 4.8 F 4
> 13 The.Orchard 1.9 0 Orchard 5.7 F 9
> 14 Rookery.Slope 1.5 4 Grassland 5 T 7
> 15 Garden.Wood 2.9 10 Scrub 5.2 F 8
> 16 North.Gravel 3.3 1 Grassland 4.1 F 1
> 17 South.Gravel 3.7 2 Grassland 4 F 2
> 18 Observatory.Ridge 1.8 6 Grassland 3.8 F 0
> 19 Pond.Field 4.1 0 Meadow 5 T 6
> 20 Water.Meadow 3.9 0 Meadow 4.9 T 8
> 21 Cheapside 2.2 8 Scrub 4.7 T 4
> 22 Pound.Hill 4.4 2 Arable 4.5 F 5
> 23 Gravel.Pit 2.9 1 Grassland 3.5 F 1
> 24 Farm.Wood 0.8 10 Scrub 5.1 T 3
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