Hello R-User I have a table as tab-delimited textfile (291 rows, 83 columns). The first row are labels and the first line the variable names.
I used the following code several times with different similar tables and it always worked. But now: setClass("of") setAs("character", "of", function(from) as.ordered(from)) Classe82<-cclasses <- c(rep("factor", 63), rep("numeric",7), rep ("of", 12)) Table<-read.table("Table.txt",header=TRUE,row.names=1, na.strings="NA" ,colClasses = Classe82) I get this error-message: Fehler in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : scan() erwartete 'a real', bekam '8,5' Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : scan() expected 'a real', got '8,5' It seems that the error is in the colClasses-argument. Without this argument it reads the table. I checked allready if there are empty cells or blanks in the header but could not find. Maybe that its just a simple thing and I know that I can change the classes after reading in the table, but I really would like to know how to do this right. I would be very glad if somebody has an idea, or could tell me, how I could find out, what`s going wrong. Many thanks in advance B. ----- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. (Marcus Aurelius) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-read.table%28%29-tp18729348p18729348.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.