Have you correctly set the value of the 'sep' argument to read.table?
-Don
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On 4/13/12 7:28 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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