I am sorry I just found the stupid mistake.
I did not specify dec="," because I usually use .
Anyway thanks for having the opportunity to get help in this list.
B.
Birgitle wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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