Hello,Everybody, Now I am using R (D)COM Server from Python to manipulate some data. When I try to use "read.table" function to read some data, an error occurred. However these statements work well when they are input to R directly. It is so odd. The Python scripts are as the following, from win32com.client import Dispatch sc=Dispatch("StatConnectorSrv.StatConnector") sc.Init("R") sc.SetSymbol("dir","D:/wangwm/work/LeafAngle/Py") sc.Evaluate("setwd(dir)") sc.SetSymbol("file","FIFE7184.LAD") #print(sc.Evaluate("file")) sc.SetSymbol("sep",'","') print(sc.GetSymbol("file")) print(sc.Evaluate("getwd()")) print(sc.Evaluate("read.table(file,sep=sep,skip=4)")) The error disappear when commenting the last statement. So I am wondering whether someting wrong with the "read.table" function when calling it from Python. Did anybody here encounter this problem? The error imformation was as the following, Running 'D:\wangwm\work\LeafAngle\Py\test.py' ... FIFE7184.LAD D:/wangwm/work/LeafAngle/Py Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\sm\scriptutils.py", line 49, in run exec codeObject in mainDict File "<source>", line 12, in ? File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\18C8B661- 81A2-11D3-9254-00E09812F727x0x1x1.py", line 51, in Evaluate return self._ApplyTypes_(6, 1, (12, 0), ((8, 1),), 'Evaluate', None,bstrExpression File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 446, in _ApplyTypes_ return self._get_good_object_( com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None, None, 0, -2147221493), None) Exception raised while running script <source> Best Regards, Weimin Wang ******************************** LSIIT, ULP, Strasbourg, France ******************************** P.S. The format of FIFE7184.LAD is as the following, 7184FIFE.LAD LEAF_ANGLE_DATA 20 \DOCUMENT\BIOLOGY\LEAF_ANG.DOC Dr. Yuangui Li - - - - \DATA\BIOLOGY\LEAF_ANG\7160FIFE.LAD \DATA\BIOLOGY\LEAF_ANG\7201FIFE.LAD SITEGRID_ID,STATION_ID,OBS_DATE,DISTRIBUTION_TYPE,LEAF_BIN_CENTER_ANG,LTER_SPECIES_CODE,SPECIES_NAME,PRCNT_LEAF_AREA,TOTAL_LEAF_AREA,FIFE_DATA_CRTFCN_CODE,LAST_REVISION_DATE 'FIFE-LAM',99,03-JUL-87,'ZENITH ',85.5,140,'INLAND IRONWEED ',.041,1635.97,'CPI ',27-JAN-90 'FIFE-LAM',99,03-JUL-87,'ZENITH ',76.5,140,'INLAND IRONWEED ',.085,1635.97,'CPI ',27-JAN-90 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]