A .csv question

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

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

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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.