I get this error from read.table(): Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : line 234 did not have 8 elements The error is genuine (an extra field separator between 1st and 2nd element).
1. is there a way to see this bad line 234 from R without diving into the file? 2. is there a way to ignore the bad lines and get the data from the good lines only (I do want to see the bad lines, but I don't want to stop all work until some issue which causes 1% of data is resolved). thanks. Oh, yeah, a reproducible example: read.csv from ===== a,b 1,2 3,4 5,,6 7,8 ===== I want to be able to extract the data frame a b 1 1 1 2 3 4 3 7 8 and a list of strings of length 1 containing "5,,6". -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) X 11.0.11004000 http://mideasttruth.com http://ffii.org http://honestreporting.com http://iris.org.il http://palestinefacts.org http://dhimmi.com If a cat tells you that you lost your mind, then it is so. ______________________________________________ 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.
