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scan problems -- what can "what" be?

2 messages · Christopher Fonnesbeck, Brian Ripley

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Christopher Fonnesbeck
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Hello,

I am trying to import a list of "structure" objects into R (data for BUGS,
actually), but am having little success. In the help file for scan there
dies not seem to be a list of valid values for the "what" keyword. Can
anyone provide me with one? I have pasted in a sample input file that I am
trying to import below this message. I have tried
what=list(structure,structure,structure) and variations thereof.

Also, is there an easy way of searching the mailing list archives, so that
I dont have to bother the list with silly questions like this one?

Thanks,
cjf

list(
move_n = structure(.Data=c(0.984,0.016, 0.000,
            0.081, 0.904, 0.015,
            0.000, 0.026, 0.974,
            0.974, 0.026, 0.000,
            0.052, 0.930, 0.018,
            0.000, 0.014, 0.986), .Dim=c(3,3,2)),

move_s = structure(.Data=c(0.506, 0.214, 0.280,
		0.048, 0.689, 0.263,
		0.002, 0.914, 0.084,
		0.451, 0.262, 0.287,
		0.062, 0.686, 0.252,
		0.002, 0.890, 0.108), .Dim=c(3,3,2)),

fidel = structure(.Data=c(0.890, 0.055, 0.055,
			0.065, 0.870, 0.065,
			0.060, 0.060, 0.880,
			0.88, 0.06, 0.06,
			0.07, 0.86, 0.07,
			0.075, 0.075, 0.85),.Dim=c(3,3,2))
)
Brian Ripley
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On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
There is no such list.  As the help page says, it is the *type*  of `what'
that counts.  So it can be an integer, logical, numeric, complex or
character vector, or a list containing such vectors.

            

      
      
      
    

        
Those are arrays.  Scan them as vectors and then add dimensions.