Not sure if same problem, but I had a very simple file which wouldn;t load. I had created it, in a roundabout way, via Gnumeric. After some fiddlign around I decided that there was a non-printing character or rogue \n or \r character somewhere in the file but I couldn;t find it. loading bits fo the file worked but still coudn;t locate the problem.
in the end reformatted the file via Bluefish and it was OK. On 05/10/2007, Ettinger, Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > I know that this is a terribly banal question but I cannot seem to solve > it. > > I am trying to load in data from a tab-delimited text file. Some > columns are mixed text-numbers and other columns are strictly numbers. > Some cells are blank. > > My command is: > >MDMT_RPup <- read.table("GCRMA_MDM-T_RPup.txt", header=T, > sep="\t", row.names=NULL, fill=TRUE) > > The problem is that this text file should load with 118 rows, 7 columns > of data. But when I execute the following command: > > >dim(MDMT_RPup) > I only get: > >40 7 > > Other similarly generated text files of varying sizes (9 rows, 72 rows, > etc.) seem to load just fine with the appropriate number of rows. > > I have tried opening the text file in MS Excel and deleting all columns > to the right of the data in case there was some kind of hidden > character. No help. > > I realize that this is a small problem, but I'm stumped. > > Thanks in advance for any help! > --Nick > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- Prof R Gott School of Education Durham University Durham DH1 1TA [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.