[R] Error: unexpected symbol in [with read.table]

[Bert Gunter]

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Bert Gunter

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On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Kate Ignatius <kate.ignatius at gmail.com> wrote:
> "reading in a tab delimited file using args"
>
> What I mean by that is that I'm using a bash script to call in an R
> script and using the command: args <- commandArgs(TRUE) in my R
> script.
>
> In my shell script I'm calling the R program as follows:
> /path/to/R/R-3.0.2/bin/Rscript
>
> I'm not sure if that will help - sure you will all know if it doesn't.
>
> K.
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ??
>> Are you expecting us to guess what your code was from
>>
>> "reading in a tab delimited file using args" ?
>>
>> You've posted here before and should know by now that explicit code
>> should be provided whenever possible.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bert
>> Bert Gunter
>>
>> "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge
>> is certainly not wisdom."
>>    -- Clifford Stoll
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Kate Ignatius <kate.ignatius at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> When reading in a tab delimited file using args I keep getting the error:
>>>
>>> Error: unexpected symbol in "Name index"
>>>
>>> Execution halted
>>>
>>> The code is this:
>>>
>>> a <- read.table(args[1],sep="\t",header=T, stringsAsFactors=F)
>>>
>>> When inputting the file directly, as follows, this produces no errors:
>>>
>>> a <- read.table("/path/to/file/filename.txt", header=T,sep="\t",
>>> stringsAsFactors=F).
>>>
>>> The file is such:
>>>
>>> Name               index
>>> Bob                  1
>>> George             2
>>> Dave                3
>>> Eric                  4
>>> .
>>> .
>>> .
>>> .
>>> Andrew            20
>>>
>>> Is there anything I should be looking out for that might be producing
>>> this error.   Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>>>
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