Macintosh rm162 fails read.table() from sample (PR#2485)

Full_Name: Chris Yager
Version: rm162
OS: Mac OS 9.2.2
Submission from: (NULL) (67.117.145.197)


As a new user I was running A sample session  from Appendix A  of  An
Introduction  to R.  'mm<-read.table("morley.tab")'  failed.  Note 
that the
prior command, 'file.show("morley.tab")', succeeded.  Problem does NOT 
occur in
version rm161.

NO other bug reports seem relevant.
Contents of my window follow, then contents of 'R.bug.report' follows 
that.
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getwd()

[1] "Macintosh HD:Users:Bio:Documents:Intro BioStat:R:sample:"

file.show("morley.tab")
mm<-read.table("morley.tab")

Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec 
= dec,  :

	line 1 did not have 4 elements

help.start()

If nothing happens, you have to open ` Macintosh HD:Applications (Mac 
OS
9):R:rm162:doc:html:index.html ' yourself

bug.report()

Error in system(call, intern) :
 The function "system" is not implemented on Macintosh

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Version:
 platform = ppc-apple-macos
 arch = ppc
 os = MacOS
 system = ppc, MacOS
 status =
 major = 1
 minor = 6.2
 year = 2003
 month = 01
 day = 10
 language = R

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, package:ctest, Autoloads, package:base

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Your faithful frog,
Chris Yager
"Love 'dem bugs"