Murray Jorgensen wrote:
I want to paste in the following numbers into a scan:
0.023 0.032 0.054 0.069 0.081 0.094 0.105 0.127 0.148 0.169 0.188 0.216
they are separated by tabs alone, unless my mailer has done something to the tabs.
Now have a look at this:
> scan()
1: 0.0230.0320.0540.0690.0810.094
1: 0.1050.1270.1480.1690.1880.216
Error in scan() : "scan" expected a real, got "0.0230.0320.0540.0690.0810.094"
> scan(sep="\t")
1: 0.0230.0320.0540.0690.0810.094
1: 0.1050.1270.1480.1690.1880.216
Error in scan(sep = " ") : "scan" expected a real, got "0.0230.0320.0540.0690.0810.094"
>
Platform: Windows XP Release 1.8.1
I can't seem to scan in tab-separated numbers even when I try to tell R to expect that. (this may be related to the Sweave problem I mentioned a few days ago.)
Murray
If you save the numbers to a file (say "x.txt") then
scan("x.txt", sep = "\t")
should do it. Or highlight your text, copy to the clipboard ("Ctrl-C"), and try:
scan("clipboard", sep = "\t")
Read the help for ?scan.
-sundar
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