Your example is not reproducible. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example
I would guess you have tabs at the ends of your lines in the input file. This is a fairly common problem when you muck with data in Excel. To find these problems yourself, learn to examine the objects you create by executing the statements one-to-one and interspersing ?str calls and printing objects so you understand what the code is working with. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. Esam Tolba <eato...@gmail.com> wrote: >I am a beginner in R. >I wrote a function to read a data frame from a file and then split it >into certain number of data frames and write each one of them in a >separate txt file. >the function is working perfectly for the first four files the it >gives me files contain one column of NA values. > >split= function (filename,linesno,filesno) { > i=1 > j=linesno > k=1 > e=1 > x=read.table(filename, sep=("\t"), header= FALSE) > for (i in 1:filesno){ > xx=x[e:j, ] > l=paste0(filename,0,k,".pdb") > write.table(xx, l, quote =FALSE, sep = >"\t",row.names = FALSE, col.names = FALSE) > k=k+1 > e=e+j > j=2*j > } > } >what could be the problem? >Esam > >______________________________________________ >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.