I study R with R Cookbook 2nd edition. in 4.6 Reading Fixed-Width Records, I typed code as written in book. but my code doesn't work like book
Fisher R.A. 1890 1962
Pearson Karl 1857 1936
Cox Gertrude 1900 1978
Yates Frank 1902 1994
Smith Kirstine 1878 1939
save this lines as "fixed-width.fwf" and "fixed-width.txt" both
and run code
f1 = "fixed-width.fwf"
f2 = "fixed-width.txt"
t1 <- read_fwf(f1, fwf_empty(f1, col_names = c("last", "first", "birth", "death")))
t2 <- read_fwf(f2, fwf_empty(f2, col_names = c("last", "first", "birth", "death")))
t1 and t2 both print this error message
Error: `file` must be a regular file, not a connection
sorry for my low level English