[R] Warning message: In scan(file, what, nmax...)

[jim holtman]

According to the dump of the lines you included, I would assume that a
semicolon (";") is the field separator and that the comma is part of
the 3rd field and looks like the decimal point.  Can you show what you
expect the output to be in terms of what goes into what columns.  Here
is what I get when I read your data:

> x <- read.table(text = 'Country10;Year10;GDP
+ Andorra;2010;41,138
+ Andorra;2009;44,591
+  Andorra;2008;49,981
+  Andorra;2007;48,431
+  Andorra;2006;43,541
+ Andorra;2005;40,821
+ Andorra;2004;38,381
+  Andorra;2003;32,55
+  Andorra;2002;25,532',  sep = ';', header = TRUE, dec = ',')
>
> x
  Country10 Year10    GDP
1   Andorra   2010 41.138
2   Andorra   2009 44.591
3   Andorra   2008 49.981
4   Andorra   2007 48.431
5   Andorra   2006 43.541
6   Andorra   2005 40.821
7   Andorra   2004 38.381
8   Andorra   2003 32.550
9   Andorra   2002 25.532
>


On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:30 AM, F86 <faradj.g at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear David,
>
> Than you for helping me.
>
> I tried with ","
>
>  Data1<-read.table("/Users/kama/Analysis/GDP10.csv",header=TRUE,sep=",")
> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,
> :
>   line 116 did not have 2 elements
>
> i also tried:
>
> Data1<-readLines("/Users/kama/Analysis/GDP10.csv",n=10)
>> Data1
>  [1] "Country10;Year10;GDP" "Andorra;2010;41,138"  "Andorra;2009;44,591"
>  [4] "Andorra;2008;49,981"  "Andorra;2007;48,431"  "Andorra;2006;43,541"
>  [7] "Andorra;2005;40,821"  "Andorra;2004;38,381"  "Andorra;2003;32,55"
> [10] "Andorra;2002;25,532"
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