On Aug 16, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Sarah Goslee wrote:
Hi Noah,
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Noah Silverman <noahsilver...@ucla.edu
> wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to read in a fairly large file into R, and am getting an
odd error (65000 rows, 37 columns)
Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines,
na.strings, :
line 25628 did not have 37 elements
The single most common cause of this kind of error is a single or
double
quote somewhere in that or the surrounding lines.
... but # is another cause of obscure input errors
That line DOES have 37 elements. As A test, I tried deleting it,
and a few surrounding lines. Same error occurs with a different
line number.
Is there some hard limit as to how large a file I can import? If
so, any suggested work around?
Check for quotes.
Check your quote option in whatever command you're using to import
(you
didn't tell us).
... and you can suppress the handling of comments with
..., comment.char="", ...
If neither of those work, then offer the list your actual command,
and a
small reproducible example (eg the lines right around where the error
appears).
Sarah
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West Hartford, CT
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