Yesterday I changed the headers for a couple of columns in data text files and removed hyphens from within character strings, too. When I tried to re-read these data sources using read.table() I encountered an issue I've not before seen. Both files were read almost instantly until yesterday's wording changes.
Now both files seem to cause R to hang. Rather than having the prompt immediately returned nothing happens. In emacs the 'working' symbol appears but the read.table() function does not complete. What might cause this? Rich ______________________________________________ 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.
