A guess, and only a guess, but a csv file at heart is a text file, and I would assume it has PC line-enders, which could cause problems.
-Roy M. On Apr 8, 2008, at 11:11 AM, David Kaplan wrote: > Hi, > > No doubt I'm writing to the wrong R list and some cranky person will > flame me as a reminder, but I seem to have this problem just on the > Mac > version of R. Here is the scenario. I am using SPSS on the PC to > save > a file as a .csv. I then bring this file into R and have it read the > file as a .csv. When I look at the file in Mac Excel, it looks like a > regular spreadsheet without commas as I might expect. When I run the > model, I get the message > > Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, > na.strings, : > scan() expected 'a real', got '3196)' > > > The 3196 is the sample size used for this analysis and it is > correct. I > can ask it to print the data and the correlation matrix, and > everything > seems fine. There are no additional characters (such as a > parentheses) > in the file. My students who are doing this analysis for a class > assignment do not seem to have a problem on the PC, so I am > wondering if > anyone has encountered an incompatibility problems. > > Thanks in advance, and I apologize if this is the wrong list. > > David > > -- > =============================================================== > David Kaplan, Ph.D. > Professor > Department of Educational Psychology > University of Wisconsin - Madison > Educational Sciences, Room, 1061 > 1025 W. Johnson Street > Madison, WI 53706 > > email: dkaplan at education dot wisc dot edu > homepage: > http://www.education.wisc.edu/edpsych/facstaff/kaplan/kaplan.htm > Phone: 608-262-0836 > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac ********************** "The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government or NOAA." ********************** Roy Mendelssohn Supervisory Operations Research Analyst NOAA/NMFS Environmental Research Division Southwest Fisheries Science Center 1352 Lighthouse Avenue Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Note new e-mail address) voice: (831)-648-9029 fax: (831)-648-8440 www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
