Duncan,
I believe I follow you now, I have done like so with expected results:
ncol <- max(count.fields("paths.txt", sep = "|"))
test <- read.delim("paths.txt", sep="|", quote=NULL, header=F,
colClasses="character", fill=TRUE, col.names = paste("V", seq_len(ncol), sep =
""))
Thank you for your help
Brian
On Nov 17, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Brian Feeny wrote:
>
> On Nov 17, 2012, at 4:27 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>
>>
>> I would suggest reading the help file: read.delim only looks at the first 5
>> lines to determine the number of columns if you don't specify the colClasses.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>
> Duncan,
>
> I have tried to pass colClasses but R complains:
>
> test <- read.delim("mypaths4.txt", sep="|", quote=NULL, header=F,
> colClasses=c("character","character","character","character","character","character","character","character","character","character"),
> fill=TRUE)
> Warning message:
> In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, :
> cols = 9 != length(data) = 10
>
>
> once again this is with data:
>
> A|B|C|D
> A|B|C|D|E|F
> A|B|C|D|E
> A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I
> A|B|C|D
> A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J
>
> Any idea?
>
> Brian
>
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