On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, William Dunlap wrote:
An unmatched quote can make read.table run very slowly when there are lots of lines in the file. E.g.,
Bill, Yes. Turns out that there was no closing quote on a changed header. I found this by an error message on one data file; the other data file didn't generate an error for me to see. Thanks very much, 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.