Hi I can read the example you provided without much problem.
dput(head(test)) structure(list(n = 0:5, X = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), start = c(11185L, 39530L, 40544L, 109684L, 114629L, 118841L), X.1 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), dur = c(1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 1L), X.2 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), pause = c(28344L, 1012L, 69139L, 4944L, 4212L, 2558L), X.3 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), par = c(0, 100, 100, 100, 0, 100), X.4 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), ins = c(2L, 3L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L), X.5 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), del = c(0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L), X.6 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), sid = structure(c(10L, 13L, 16L, 1L, 11L, 12L), .Label = c(" -1", " -1+11+13+15", " -1+110", " -1+16", " -1+26+29", " -1+27+30", " -1+32", " -1+4+5", " -1+48", " 1", " 17", " 18+19", " 2", " 20", " 28", " 3", " 36", " 37", " 38", " 42", " 43", " 45", " 49", " 50", " 53", " 54", " 58", " 59", " 61+64"), class = "factor"), X.7 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), tid = structure(c(1L, 6L, 20L, 30L, 38L, 39L), .Label = c(" 1", " 10+11+12", " 13+14", " 15+16+17", " 18+19", " 2+3", " 20", " 21", " 22", " 23", " 24+25", " 26", " 27+28+29", " 30+31+32", " 33+34", " 35", " 36+37", " 38", " 39", " 4", " 40", " 41", " 42", " 43", " 44+45", " 46", " 47", " 48", " 49", " 5", " 50", " 51", " 52+93", " 53", " 54", " 55", " 56", " 6", " 7", " 8", " 9"), class = "factor"), X.8 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), str = structure(c(5L, 6L, 5L, 5L, 4L, 5L), .Label = c(" ,", " ,_", " .", " ・", " ・・", " ・・・", " ・・・.", " ・・・・", " ・・・・・"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("n", "X", "start", "X.1", "dur", "X.2", "pause", "X.3", "par", "X.4", "ins", "X.5", "del", "X.6", "sid", "X.7", "tid", "X.8", "str" ), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class = "data.frame") Only Chinese characters are missing and some extra columns appear > str(test) 'data.frame': 41 obs. of 19 variables: $ n : int 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ... $ X : logi NA NA NA NA NA NA ... $ start: int 11185 39530 40544 109684 114629 118841 121400 128201 129793 131852 ... $ X.1 : logi NA NA NA NA NA NA ... $ dur : int 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 436 608 ... $ X.2 : logi NA NA NA NA NA NA ... $ pause: int 28344 1012 69139 4944 4212 2558 6800 1591 1623 3573 ... $ X.3 : logi NA NA NA NA NA NA ... $ par : num 0 100 100 100 0 100 100 100 0 100 ... $ X.4 : logi NA NA NA NA NA NA ... $ ins : int 2 3 2 2 1 2 2 2 3 3 ... $ X.5 : logi NA NA NA NA NA NA ... $ del : int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... $ X.6 : logi NA NA NA NA NA NA ... $ sid : Factor w/ 29 levels " -1"," -1+11+13+15",..: 10 13 16 1 11 12 1 1 2 4 ... $ X.7 : logi NA NA NA NA NA NA ... $ tid : Factor w/ 41 levels " 1"," 10+11+12",..: 1 6 20 30 38 39 40 41 2 3 ... $ X.8 : logi NA NA NA NA NA NA ... $ str : Factor w/ 9 levels " ,"," ,_"," .",..: 5 6 5 5 4 5 5 5 6 6 ... > sessionInfo() R Under development (unstable) (2012-03-03 r58569) Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=Czech_Czech Republic.1250 LC_CTYPE=Czech_Czech Republic.1250 [3] LC_MONETARY=Czech_Czech Republic.1250 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=Czech_Czech Republic.1250 Regards Petr > Dear Professor Daalgard, > > I beginning to participate in one research of statiscal modelling of > translators'activity data, and recently install R and try to generate the > one Translation Progress Graph, as my colleagues do (with sucess), but in my > Windows platform was found the error below. According R'FAQs, it seems to be > very common error, as I'm not even familiar with the program R and even with > the ProGra, could you help me? Please! > > Note: the Translation Progress Graph is compost by quintuple data {S, T, A, > F, K} for Source and Target Text, Alignment, Fixation and Keyboar data, > respectively. > > > >ReadData("C:/Users/schmaltz/Dropbox/EN-CH/proGra/EN-ZH_P2_T4_T2") > Reading Fixation Units: > C:/Users/schmaltz/Dropbox/EN-CH/proGra/EN-ZH_P2_T4_T2 .fu > Reading Production Units: > C:/Users/schmaltz/Dropbox/EN-CH/proGra/EN-ZH_P2_T4_T2 .pu > Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : > line 38 did not have 10 elements > > Note: We try to delete the line 38, and the program results in another line > error. Even delete all lines after, the some error occur. I think is not one > encoding error, due the fact my colleague use Linux, and I Windows. > > Sample of file above: > n start dur pause par ins del sid tid str > 0 11185 1 28344 0 2 0 1 1 尽管 > 1 39530 2 1012 100.00 3 0 2 2+3 发展中 > 2 40544 1 69139 100.00 2 0 3 4 国家 > 3 109684 1 4944 100.00 2 0 -1 5 关于 > 4 114629 0 4212 0 1 0 17 6 为 > 5 118841 1 2558 100.00 2 0 18+19 7 贫困 > 6 121400 1 6800 100.00 2 0 -1 8 人民 > 7 128201 1 1591 100.00 2 0 -1 9 争取 > 8 129793 436 1623 0 3 0 -1+11+13+15 10+11+12 更好的 > 9 131852 608 3573 100.00 3 0 -1+16 13+14 生活的 > 10 136033 1202 1309 100.00 5 0 -1+4+5 15+16+17 说辞是 可以 > 11 138544 468 3682 100.00 3 0 -1 18+19 理解的 > 12 142694 359 10811 0 2 0 20 20 ,_ > 13 153864 0 2121 0 1 0 -1 21 但 > 14 155985 1 2838 100.00 2 0 -1 22 其实 > 15 158824 1 1435 100.00 2 0 -1 23 保护 > 16 160260 421 3619 87.65 3 0 -1 24+25 环境和 > 17 164300 1 1075 100.00 2 0 28 26 经济 > 18 165376 1108 1030 100.00 4 0 -1+26+29 27+28+29 发展 是不 > 19 167514 1466 8440 54.98 4 0 -1+27+30 30+31+32 冲突的 . > 20 177420 906 4023 100.00 4 0 -1+32 33+34 我们必须 > 21 182349 1 1622 100.00 2 0 36 35 鼓励 > 22 183972 2 1573 100.00 3 0 37 36+37 发展中 > 23 185547 1 15381 100.00 2 0 38 38 国家 > 24 200929 1 1934 100.00 2 0 42 39 扩展 > 25 202864 1 5864 100.00 2 0 43 40 绿色 > 26 208729 1 4383 100.00 2 0 -1 41 植被 > 27 213113 0 1497 0 1 0 45 42 , > 28 214610 1 2963 100.00 2 0 -1 43 发展 > 29 217574 906 5085 100.00 4 0 -1+48 44+45 节能科技 > 30 223565 0 1575 0 1 0 49 46 , > 31 225140 1 2683 100.00 2 0 50 47 并且 > 32 227824 1 2136 100.00 2 0 53 48 帮助 > 33 229961 1 6613 100.00 2 0 -1 49 它们 > 34 236575 1 6068 100.00 2 0 54 50 减少 > 35 242644 1 2635 100.00 2 0 -1 51 环境 > 36 245280 343 8315 100.00 3 0 -1+110 52+93 污染和 > 37 253938 1 1653 100.00 2 0 -1 53 破坏 > 38 255592 0 25381 0 1 0 58 54 . > 39 280973 1 1809 100.00 2 0 59 55 一些 > 40 282783 1 16878 100.00 2 0 61+64 56 国家 > > Thank you very much! > > Marcia > > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Novice- > question-about-getting-data-into-R-tp866806p4633954.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. ______________________________________________ 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.