If you google for "invalid 'description' argument" it should be pretty clear
what's going on - most likely your DirPath_Matrix is not a single item.
B.
On Apr 28, 2015, at 7:02 PM, catherine peters
<catherine.h.pet...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi thank you in advance for your assistance.
>
> I am using the following section of script:
>
> DirPath_folder
> <-Sys.glob(file.path("/Users/catpeters/Documents/R_working_directory/1_Data_MC_Sorted"))
>
>
> for (folder in 1: length(DirPath_folder)) {
>
> # ## EVERY Control and Impact #
> DirPath_Matrix <-Sys.glob(file.path(DirPath_folder[folder],
> "*Markov_Matrix_Month.txt"))
>
> data <- read.table(DirPath_Matrix, header = TRUE, sep = ";")
>
> if (folder ==1) { DATA_ALL1 <- data } else { DATA_ALL1 <- rbind(DATA_ALL1,
> data) }
>
> if (folder == length(DirPath_folder)) {
> setwd("/Users/catpeters/Documents/R_working_directory/1_Data_MC_Sorted")
> write.table(DATA_ALL1 ,"Matrix_Markov_ALL_MONTH_RB.txt" , col.names=TRUE,
> row.names=FALSE, sep=";") write.table(DATA_ALL1
> ,"Matrix_Markov_ALL_MONTH_RB.csv" , col.names=TRUE, row.names=FALSE,
> sep=";") } }
>
> There seems to be a problem with: data <- read.table(DirPath_Matrix, header
> = TRUE, sep = ";"). When run it returns the Error in file(file, "rt") :
> invalid 'description' argument. This has worked previously and I'm not sure
> where the error is.
>
> Thanks again
> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
______________________________________________
R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
