Prof. Pipley
First let me thank you for your help.
Second, you are correct, I should not have used the word error in my subject
line.
Regarding the lack of detach(), I simply forgot to include that in my email.
The warnings regarding the incomplete final line do not seem to want to go
away.
The masking messages
>> The following object(s) are masked from ovendata ( position 4 ) :
>>
>> D Eight Five Four One Seven Three Two
>>
do go away if I use: rm(list=ls(all=TRUE))
thanks,
Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Prof Brian Ripley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Eric C. Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Warnings about user error (was read.table error)
>I see no error here, let alone an error in read.table as claimed in your
>subject line.
>
> The posting guide does specifically ask `Use an informative subject line'.
>
> Please distinguish warnings about _your_ usage from errors in R.
>
> The first warning is that R fixed up an error in your file: it is missing
> a newline at the end of the last line (we can't see that in your listing).
>
> The remaining warnings come from attach() and say you have already
> repeatedly attach()ed ovendata. Learn to use detach() to match attach().
> Also, in attaching ovendata you mask the function D in package stats,
> which is probably OK as you are not using it, and your D is a not a
> function.
>
>
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Eric C. Jennings wrote:
>
>> Hey, Once again I ask for some quick help.
>>
>> Here is some code:
>> ovendata<- read.table("ovens.dat",header=TRUE)
>> attach(ovendata)
>> print(ovendata)
>>
>> Here is the .dat file:
>> D One Two Three Four Five Seven Eight
>> 1130 254 252 375 384 252 375 876
>> 127 250 250 384 386 251 378 875
>>
>> Here is the R Console output:
>>> ovendata<- read.table("ovens.dat",header=TRUE)
>> Warning message:
>> incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'ovens.dat'
>>> attach(ovendata)
>>
>> The following object(s) are masked from ovendata ( position 3 ) :
>>
>> D Eight Five Four One Seven Three Two
>>
>>
>> The following object(s) are masked from ovendata ( position 4 ) :
>>
>> D Eight Five Four One Seven Three Two
>>
>>
>> The following object(s) are masked from ovendata ( position 5 ) :
>>
>> Eight Five Four One Seven Three Two
>>
>>
>> The following object(s) are masked from package:stats :
>>
>> D
>>
>>> print(ovendata)
>> D One Two Three Four Five Seven Eight
>> 1 1130 254 252 375 384 252 375 876
>> 2 127 250 250 384 386 251 378 875
>>>
>>
>> I've never seen anything like theis before. What's going on?
>>
>> Eric
>>
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