title: How do I load data into Win Bugs from Excel or from Notepad (doc ending with .txt)?
body: <p>I need to load some data into WinBugs from Excel and for some reason, Winbugs doesn't recognize it. There are many things I have tried (all of which are listed below) and none of these work.</p>
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  <li><p>I tried to copy from Excel and 'Paste Special' as 'Plain Text' into WinBugs. I added <code>[]</code> after every variable and even <code>'END'</code> at the end. The error message came up as follows:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Sorry something went wrong in procedure <code>LoadNumeric Data</code> in module <code>BugRectData</code></p>
  </blockquote>
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  <li><p>I copied and pasted into notepad, added <code>[]</code> after every variable and even <code>'END'</code> at the end again and then removed all the space between the lines, and only one space between each data. When I dragged it into Winbugs, it dispersed into double space between the lines and large gaps between the data and the error message came up (when trying to load the data):</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Sorry something went wrong in procedure <code>LoadNumeric Data</code> in module <code>BugRectData</code></p>
  </blockquote>
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  <li><p>The last thing I did was to open the .txt file into Winbugs and it became all jumbled and when I tried to load the data, instead it highlighted some data such as <code>NA2.0</code> that should have been <code>NA 2.0</code> and said it &quot;expected a number or an NA or END&quot;. After correcting these mistakes, the data seemed fine until the end where it said <code>'END'</code> and it said the same thing only highlighting the <code>E</code> on the <code>END</code>.</p>
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  <p>If anyone could give any insight I would be most grateful.</p>