R help - Dec 2009 - reading table

Hi there,

I am completely new in R.
I am trying to read a table that has no feature, so cannot put it in Excel
as usual.
I saved it as a txt file on the same root as my R program with the name
pro.txt.
Now I am looking to import it in my program as a matrix by excluding the
column titles, and the rows number.
I tried this A <- read.table("pro.txt",header = T), but did not
work


Thanks

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Theodore Kengne wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I am completely new in R.
> I am trying to read a table that has no feature, so cannot put it in Excel
> as usual.
> 
Could you explain what you mean by "has no feature"?  I cannot figure
out
what this phrase means in relation to the data set you are trying to work
with.



Theodore Kengne wrote:
> 
> I saved it as a txt file on the same root as my R program with the name
> pro.txt.
> Now I am looking to import it in my program as a matrix by excluding the
> column titles, and the rows number.
> I tried this A <- read.table("pro.txt",header = T), but did
not work
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 

What kind of text file did you save?  Tab delimited?  Space Delimited? Comma
Seperated Value (CSV)?  Each of these formats affects the arguments you will
have to pass to read.table() in order for the function to read the data
correctly.

Additionally, you may want to take a look at the "R Data
Import/Export"
manual:

  http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-data.html

Since you are new to R, this will help familiarize you with some of the ways
data can be imported.

Good luck and welcome to the community!

-Charlie
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