Message-ID: <A3CB44EF-EDD3-4A31-A07A-80D240AA5EE4@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-10-20T11:36:04Z
From: jim holtman
Subject: Error: not 'a real'?
In-Reply-To: <50828953.9040708@gmail.com>
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 <zenlines at 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
>
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