R help - Mar 2012 - Loading Dataset into R continual issue

Hi, this is related to academic research I am trying to conduct. Please
pardon my lack of socialization for this forum. 

For my project, I had to combine two different datasets, Democracy dataset
from Pippa Norris and World Bank Patents dataset. 

My issue arrises from just loading the file into R. My colleagues proficient
in R have been stumped as well.  Often times the file would seem to load
fine using read.table command, however when I tried to run summary
statistics of variables, it would say "object not found".

I have tried different formats and commands. Formats .xlsx, .csv, . txt.
Commands read.table, read.csv, read.delim. I have tried to run summary
statistics of Pat2006, Pat2005, Pat 2004 all the way to Pat 2001. 

Could anyone PLEASE help me solve this issue? I cannot even begin to say how
thankful I will be. 

I have uploaded the .txt file onto mediafire website for easy access. I
posted .txt so people aren't worried about viruses or anything of the sort.
I can also post other versions of the file, or direct to the 2 original
datasets. 

Good Democracy Dataset http://www.mediafire.com/?ytg7a76s7ox05se  (141 kb)


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Seems to work for me:

x <- read.table("read.table("~/Downloads/gooddemocracy.txt",
sep "\t", header = TRUE)
str(x)

summary(x)[,1:10]

Michael



On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:52 PM, bobo <blezaic2 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi, this is related to academic research I am trying to conduct. Please
> pardon my lack of socialization for this forum.
>
> For my project, I had to combine two different datasets, Democracy dataset
> from Pippa Norris and World Bank Patents dataset.
>
> My issue arrises from just loading the file into R. My colleagues
proficient
> in R have been stumped as well. ?Often times the file would seem to load
> fine using read.table command, however when I tried to run summary
> statistics of variables, it would say "object not found".
>
> I have tried different formats and commands. Formats .xlsx, .csv, . txt.
> Commands read.table, read.csv, read.delim. I have tried to run summary
> statistics of Pat2006, Pat2005, Pat 2004 all the way to Pat 2001.
>
> Could anyone PLEASE help me solve this issue? I cannot even begin to say
how
> thankful I will be.
>
> I have uploaded the .txt file onto mediafire website for easy access. I
> posted .txt so people aren't worried about viruses or anything of the
sort.
> I can also post other versions of the file, or direct to the 2 original
> datasets.
>
> Good Democracy Dataset http://www.mediafire.com/?ytg7a76s7ox05se ?(141 kb)
>
>
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Thank you. I was able to get it loaded however when I tried to run

mod1<-lm(Pat2006~FHouse)
I got
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object 'Pat2006' not found

What exactly is occurring here?

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