how about supplying the context of the error. Show the lines in the file where the error occurred.
Sent from my iPad On Oct 20, 2012, at 7:21, Brian <zenli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi List, > > when supplying a vector of atomic vector classes to read.table, I get: > # column classes > colClasses=c("character", "character","numeric", "numeric", "numeric", > "numeric", "numeric", "numeric", > "numeric", "numeric", "numeric", > "numeric") > # Error: > Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, > (from #2) : > scan() expected 'a real', got '894.6' > > How is '894.6' not 'a real [number]'? > > Thanks for the ensuing enlightenment or punishment... > > Best, > Brian > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.