Thanks Peter. In my case specifying the quote="\"" worked out fine with read.table().
-Sashi On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:53 PM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On May 4, 2012, at 08:16 , Rameswara Sashi Kiran Challa wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a tab seperated file with 206 rows and 30 columns. > > > > I read in the file into R using read.table() function. I checked the > dim() > > of the data frame created in R, it had only 103 rows (exactly half), 30 > > columns. Then I tried reading in the file using read.delim() function and > > this time the dim() showed to be 206 rows, 30 columns as expected. > > Reading the read.table() R-help documentation, I came across > count.fields() > > function. On using that on the tab seperated file, I got to learn that > the > > header line alone has 30 fields and rest of the rows have 9 fields. I am > > now just wondering why read.delim() function was able to read in the file > > correctly and read.table() wasn't able to read the file completely ? > > > > Could anyone please throw some light on this? > > This can't be answered in abstractum. However, all that read.delim does is > to call read.table with a specific set of arguments, so you should be able > to get the right result from > > read.table(......., header = TRUE, sep = "\t", quote = "\"", dec = ".", > fill = TRUE, comment.char = "") > > So check that it works. If you are curious as to what is causing the > difference, just knock out the arguments one by one. > > > > > > Thanks for your valuable time, > > > > Regards > > Sashi > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
