Hello, > > The problem is that I get a the following error bacause anything after the > # is ignored. > > Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, > : > line 6 did not have 500 elements > > R thinks that line 6 has only 2 elements because of the #. >
Use 'readLines' instead, followed by 'strsplit'. In the example below the separator is a space. tc <- textConnection( "yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes # yes yes" ) #x <- read.table(tc) # same error: "line 3 did not have 5 elements" x <- readLines(tc) close(tc) strsplit(x, " ") Hope this helps, Rui Barradas -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/read-table-issue-with-tp4436554p4436737.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
