read.delim2 did the trick -- many thanks!!!
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Jorge Ivan Velez <jorgeivanve...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> ?read.delim2
>
> HTH,
> Jorge
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Donald Braman <dbra...@law.gwu.edu>wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your advice! I still get the same error, though -- not sure
>> why.
>>
>>
>> > read.table('don.5.clusters.txt', header = TRUE, comment.char = '', quote
>> ='')
>>
>> Error in read.table("don.5.clusters.txt", header = TRUE, comment.char =
>> "",
>> :
>>
>> more columns than column names
>>
>>
>> Any other thoughts?
>>
>> --
>> Donald Braman
>> http://ssrn.com/author=286206
>> http://www.culturalcognition.net/braman/
>> http://www.law.gwu.edu/Faculty/profile.aspx?id=10123
>>
>> Henrique Dallazuanna
>> Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:11:33 -0700
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> read.table('don.5.clusters.txt', header = TRUE, comment.char = '', quote =
>> '')
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Donald Braman <dbra...@law.gwu.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > That's one of the things I tried, but which didn't work. I get the
>> > following
>> > error when I do that:
>> >
>> > Error in read.table(file = "don.5.clusters.txt", header = TRUE,
>> > comment.char
>> > = "", :
>> > more columns than column names
>> >
>> > If I remove the hashes by other means, I don't get that error.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Duncan Murdoch
>> > <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>wrote:
>> >
>> > > On 26/10/2010 10:33 AM, Donald Braman wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> I'm importing a lot of text tables of data (from Latent Gold) that
>> > >> includes
>> > >> hashes in some of the column names ("Cluster#1", "Cluster#2", etc.).
>> Is
>> > >> there an easy way to strip the offending hashes out before pushing
>> the
>> > >> text
>> > >> into a table or data frame? I thought I'd use gsub, e.g., but can't
>> > >> figure
>> > >> out how to read in a text file without reading it into a table or
>> data
>> > >> frame
>> > >> (which would be ill structured, given the hashes). I could do it in
>> > >> another
>> > >> scripting language or shell script, but would like to try to do it in
>> R.
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > readLines() will read it, but you may not need to do that. Set
>> > > comment.char="" to turn off the special meaning of # in read.table()
>> and
>> > > related functions.
>> > >
>> > > Duncan
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Donald Braman
>> > phone: 971-645-0607
>> > http://www.culturalcognition.net/braman/
>> > http://ssrn.com/author=286206
>> > http://www.law.gwu.edu/Faculty/profile.aspx?id=10123
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