Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Some introductory questions

2020-09-08 Thread Adrian Dușa
Dear Mike, I remember so very well the time when I struggled with exactly the same things, reading a file seeming like an almost insurmountable task. However, given this actually is very simple I can also understand the reactions you got. Imagine every newbie asking these questions over and over a

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Some introductory questions

2020-09-08 Thread peter dalgaard
Not work how? You need to tell us what kind of errors you see, otherwise, we can only guess. I'd lose the file() construct. It sets up a connection object, which can be less than useful when read.table reads the file several time in order to decipher the column structure of the file. So plain

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Some introductory questions

2020-09-07 Thread Mike Feher
Hi Brodie, Thanks for your suggestions, I definitely appreciate it. Yes, I realize these aren’t Mac-specific questions, so forgive a new member the mistake of accidentally posting to the wrong listserv. I realized that after the fact, but there it is. I think I discovered two problems today tha

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Some introductory questions

2020-09-07 Thread brodie gaslam via R-SIG-Mac
> On Monday, September 7, 2020, 6:08:51 PM EDT, Mike Feher > wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > Here is a snippet of the code I was trying to start with: > > filepath1 <- file("/Users/michaelfeher/Documents/R > Documents/COVID19/20200906-1822-total-cases-jones.data") > filepath1 > TotalCasesJones <- read

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Some introductory questions

2020-09-07 Thread Mike Feher
Great, thank you. I was following along the tutorial session provided in the official documentation and I could not make sense of how they were opening the Michelson-Morely experimental data. It seemed as if they were forcing the source file to be read in from some library location, where in all

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Some introductory questions

2020-09-07 Thread Mike Feher
Hi Peter, Here is a snippet of the code I was trying to start with: filepath1 <- file("/Users/michaelfeher/Documents/R Documents/COVID19/20200906-1822-total-cases-jones.data") filepath1 TotalCasesJones <- read.table(filepath1) This definitely did not work for me. Mike On September 7, 2020 at 3

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Some introductory questions

2020-09-07 Thread peter dalgaard
> On 7 Sep 2020, at 07:09 , Ken Beath wrote: > >> On 7 Sep 2020, at 9:31 am, Mike Feher wrote: > [snip] >> 4. I tried to read in a set of dummy space-delimited data saved in an >> absolute path on my computer, but it would not work. I tried something in >> another path that did not have a s

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Some introductory questions

2020-09-06 Thread Ken Beath
> On 7 Sep 2020, at 9:31 am, Mike Feher wrote: > 2. Are these objects, etc. stored on disk somewhere, or are they only > accessible via the interfaces? For example, I would be interested to see > the source code for the demo examples to learn how to do certain things, if > this is possible.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Some introductory questions

2020-09-06 Thread David Winsemius
> On Sep 6, 2020, at 4:31 PM, Mike Feher wrote: > > Greetings, > > As I’m getting familiar with R, I have some basic questions that I thought > of to shoot to useRs: You should review the ListInfo material. Most of these questions have nothing to do with the Mac version of R. > > 1. When l

[R-SIG-Mac] Some introductory questions

2020-09-06 Thread Mike Feher
Greetings, As I’m getting familiar with R, I have some basic questions that I thought of to shoot to useRs: 1. When looking up library functions, symbols, objects, etc., is there a Google-style “global search” capability for all that is available with my installation? Or is it just all accessibl