Hi Sam,
It is "header", not "Header". See ?read.table.
HTH,
Jorge
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:10 AM, shardman < wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm really new to R so I aoplogise if this is a stupid question.
>
> I'm trying to import data from a .txt file into R using the read.table
> command, the headers for the data columns are already in the text file so I
> add Header = True after the file location. The problem is I keep getting
> the
> error message *unused argument(s) (Header = True)*, does anyone know why?
>
> The format of the text file is like this (I've also tried spaces rather
> than
> tab to seperate the columns):
>
> TRAP SHANNON_INDEX
> 1 3.347
> 2 3.096
> 3 3.521
> 4 2.871
> 5 2.678
>
> The commond looks like this:
>
> Trap1_data<-read.table("C:/Documents and
> Settings/Samuel/Desktop/Biology/Independent study/Stats/Diversity
> indices/shannon index results trap 1.txt", Header = True)
>
> I would reall appreciate some help,
> Yours,
> Sam
>
>
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