This is a case where you need to provide a sample of your data. Most
likely it is not in a format that read.table can read with the parameters
you have given it. It may have different field separators, it might have
"#" in data fields, you might have unbalanced quotes, etc. So it is a
problem in your data and the way you are trying to read it. You have to
include commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:28 AM, AMFTom <the.quiet.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Thierry,
>
> Thanks for your help. Now though, I try to import data from a txt file, and
> it says either
>
> > mydataframe <- read.table("Lv2.8.txt")
> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,
> :
> line 3 did not have 15 elements
>
> or
>
> > mydataframe <- read.table("Lv2.8.txt", header = TRUE)
> Error in read.table("Lv2.8.txt", header = TRUE) :
> more columns than column names
>
> even though I seem to have put a column name into the txt file for each
> column. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Tom
>
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