On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 16:16 -0700, andreas wrote: > I had exactly the same problem with trying to import another .csv file. Turns > out that I was working on a german computer that instead of using a comma > when I saved it as .csv used a semicolon. Just saved it as a normal excel > file, put it on a mates computer and saved it as .csv Worked a treat..
I no longer have the earlier messages in this thread, but isn't the above what read.csv2() was designed to overcome? And you could always cook your own with read.table() and specify the separator and decimal for example if neither read.csv nor read.csv2 were exactly what you wanted. HTH G -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
