[R] importing data error question

Fox, John
Tue, 15 Jan 2019 04:36:44 -0000

Dear jihee,

> On Jan 14, 2019, at 9:00 PM, ??? <wjh1518 at ht.co.kr> wrote:
>
> You said previously that you were using a Mac, so I'm surprised that
you now say that you're using Windows. I don't have a Windows 7 system,
but I can confirm that importing from Excel files works perfectly fine under
Windows 10, as I just verified, and I'd be surprised if the Windows version
matters.
>
> --> no, I never said i was using a Mac.

Sorry, I guess I got that from the error message you originally reported, which
was "Error in structure(.External(.C_dotTclObjv, objv), class =
"tclObj") : [tcl] bad Macintosh file type "?*?"."
I've never seen that error and it seems peculiar that it would occur on a
Windows system.

>
> You still haven't reported the versions of R, the Rcmdr package, and
the other packages that you're using. The easiest way to do this is to show
the output of the sessionInfo() command.
>
> --> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
>
> Matrix products: default
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=Korean_Korea.949  LC_CTYPE=Korean_Korea.949
> [3] LC_MONETARY=Korean_Korea.949 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=Korean_Korea.949
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] tcltk     splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets
methods
> [9] base
>
> other attached packages:
>  [1] RcmdrPlugin.SensoMineR_1.11-01 RcmdrPlugin.FactoMineR_1.6-0
>  [3] Rcmdr_2.5-1                    effects_4.1-0
>  [5] RcmdrMisc_2.5-1                sandwich_2.5-0
>  [7] car_3.0-2                      carData_3.0-2
>  [9] SensoMineR_1.23                FactoMineR_1.41
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>  [1] gtools_3.8.1         Formula_1.2-3        latticeExtra_0.6-28
>  [4] cellranger_1.1.0     pillar_1.3.1         backports_1.1.3
>  [7] lattice_0.20-38      digest_0.6.18        RColorBrewer_1.1-2
> [10] checkmate_1.8.5      minqa_1.2.4          colorspace_1.3-2
> [13] survey_3.35          htmltools_0.3.6      Matrix_1.2-15
> [16] plyr_1.8.4           pkgconfig_2.0.2      haven_2.0.0
> [19] scales_1.0.0         openxlsx_4.1.0       rio_0.5.16
> [22] lme4_1.1-19          htmlTable_1.13.1     tibble_1.4.2
> [25] relimp_1.0-5         ggplot2_3.1.0        nnet_7.3-12
> [28] lazyeval_0.2.1       survival_2.43-3      magrittr_1.5
> [31] crayon_1.3.4         readxl_1.2.0         nlme_3.1-137
> [34] MASS_7.3-51.1        forcats_0.3.0        foreign_0.8-71
> [37] class_7.3-14         tools_3.5.2          data.table_1.11.8
> [40] hms_0.4.2            tcltk2_1.2-11        stringr_1.3.1
> [43] munsell_0.5.0        cluster_2.0.7-1      zip_1.0.0
> [46] flashClust_1.01-2    compiler_3.5.2       e1071_1.7-0
> [49] rlang_0.3.1          grid_3.5.2           nloptr_1.2.1
> [52] rstudioapi_0.9.0     htmlwidgets_1.3      leaps_3.0
> [55] base64enc_0.1-3      gtable_0.2.0         abind_1.4-5
> [58] curl_3.2             reshape2_1.4.3       AlgDesign_1.1-7.3
> [61] gridExtra_2.3        zoo_1.8-4            knitr_1.21
> [64] nortest_1.0-4        Hmisc_4.1-1          KernSmooth_2.23-15
> [67] stringi_1.2.4        Rcpp_1.0.0           rpart_4.1-13
> [70] acepack_1.4.1        scatterplot3d_0.3-41 xfun_0.4
>
> This was the status that I tried to import Excel data.

These packages seem up-to-date.

>
> Also, have you tried importing an Excel file in the Rcmdr *without* the two
plug-in packages loaded, as I suggested in my original response?
>
> --> I tried without plug-in packages, but It didn't work.

OK, so you tried the setup that works for me and, I assume from the lack of
similar error reports, for others.

>
> It occurs to me that the problem may be produced by using the Rcmdr under R
with a non-Latin set, but if that were the case I would have expected the
problem to have surfaced earlier. Did you try reading another kind of file, such
as a plain-text data file?
>
> --> I don't know what is plain-text data file.....

A plain-text data file could, e.g., be created from an Excel file by exporting a
worksheet as a .csv (comma-separated-values) file; you could read this into the
Rcmdr via Data > Import data > from text file, specifying the field
separator as commas.

>
> i'll try R with English.

I'm curious to see what happens.

Best,
 John

>
> From:  "Fox, John" <jfox at mcmaster.ca>
>
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 11:15:36 PM
>
> To:"???" <wjh1518 at ht.co.kr>
>
> Cc:"<r-help at r-project.org>" <r-help at
R-project.org></r-help at r-project.org>
>
> Subject:Re: [R] importing data error question
>
>    Dear jihee,
>
>> On Jan 13, 2019, at 9:28 PM, ??? <wjh1518 at ht.co.kr> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> From: "???" <wjh1518 at ht.co.kr>
>> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 9:40:26 AM
>> To:"Fox, John" <jfox at mcmaster.ca>
>> Subject:Re: [R] importing data error question
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your replies.
>>
>> I'm using windows 7, I loaded FactoMineR,
>
> You said previously that you were using a Mac, so I'm surprised that
you now say that you're using Windows. I don't have a Windows 7 system,
but I can confirm that importing from Excel files works perfectly fine under
Windows 10, as I just verified, and I'd be surprised if the Windows version
matters.
>
>> SensoMineR and then Rcmdr. (Downloaded FacroMineR, SensoMineR, Rcmdr,
Rcmdrplugin.FactomineR, Rcmdrplugin.SensomineR and other required packages that
downloaded automatically)
>> This problem occurred when I select Data > Import data > From
Excel file.
>> I checked FactoMineR and SensoMineR packages are loaded and using..
>
>  You still haven't reported the versions of R, the Rcmdr package, and
the other packages that you're using. The easiest way to do this is to show
the output of the sessionInfo() command.
>
>  Also, have you tried importing an Excel file in the Rcmdr *without* the
two plug-in packages loaded, as I suggested in my original response?
>
>  It occurs to me that the problem may be produced by using the Rcmdr under
R with a non-Latin set, but if that were the case I would have expected the
problem to have surfaced earlier. Did you try reading another kind of file, such
as a plain-text data file?
>
>  Best,
>  John
>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: "Fox, John" <jfox at mcmaster.ca>
>> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2019 10:48:38 PM
>> To:"PIKAL Petr" <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
>> Cc:"???" <wjh1518 at ht.co.kr>; "r-help at
R-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
>> Subject:Re: [R] importing data error question
>>
>>
>> Dear Petr and jihee,
>>
>> The Rcmdr can import Excel files, and as I just verified, it can do so
on a Mac listing files of all types (*) in the open-file dialog box (which is
the default).
>>
>> So, as Petr suggests, more information is required to help you,
including the versions of macOS, R, and all packages you have loaded. In
particular, does the problem occur when you try to read the Excel file *without*
FactoMineR and SensoMineR loaded? Also, when the does problem occur --
immediately when you select Data > Import data > From Excel file, or at
some other point?
>>
>> Best,
>> John
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> John Fox, Professor Emeritus
>> McMaster University
>> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
>> Web: http::/socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
>>
>>> On Jan 11, 2019, at 5:07 AM, PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at
precheza.cz> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I do not use Rcmdr but from documentation it seems to me that it
does not have much to do with importing data from Excel.
>>>
>>> So without some additional info from your side (at least used
commands) you hardly get any reasonable answer.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Petr
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: R-help <r-help-bounces at r-project.org> On Behalf
Of ???
>>>> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2019 9:14 AM
>>>> To: r-help at R-project.org
>>>> Subject: [R] importing data error question
>>>>
>>>> Hi I'm jihee and I have a question about error...
>>>>
>>>> I'm using R 3.5.2 and tried to use Rcmdr package.
>>>>
>>>> and using FactoMineR and SensoMineR to analyze sensory data
through PCA
>>>>
>>>> but i can't import excel data with Rcmdr.
>>>>
>>>> it has this messege :
>>>>
>>>> Error in structure(.External(.C_dotTclObjv, objv), class =
"tclObj") :
>>>> [tcl] bad Macintosh file type "?*?"
>>>>
>>>> what is wrong with my R??? T_T
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>>
>>>> jihee.
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