Hi, Try: annoTranscripts<- read.csv("matched.txt", sep = '\t', stringsAsFactors = FALSE,quote="",header=FALSE) str(annoTranscripts) 'data.frame': 367274 obs. of 12 variables: $ V1 : chr "comp103529_c0_seq1" "comp129123_c0_seq1" "comp129123_c0_seq1" "comp129124_c0_seq1" ... $ V2 : chr "XM_003723822" "XM_778057" "EU116908" "XM_786928" ... $ V3 : chr "PREDICTED: Strongylocentrotus purpuratus neuromedin-U receptor 2-like (LOC100888633), mRNA" "PREDICTED: Strongylocentrotus purpuratus 60S ribosomal protein L30-like (LOC577852), mRNA" "Barentsia elongata putative ribosomal protein L30 mRNA, complete cds" "PREDICTED: Strongylocentrotus purpuratus 60S ribosomal protein L29-1-like (LOC587182), mRNA" ... $ V4 : int 91 392 69 149 149 451 399 203 193 185 ... $ V5 : int 136 479 203 209 209 541 463 451 456 472 ... $ V6 : int 15 16 40 20 20 24 20 71 83 85 ... $ V7 : int 0 11 4 0 0 5 1 10 4 9 ... $ V8 : num 2e-38 0e+00 6e-26 2e-70 2e-70 ... $ V9 : int 1 22 210 135 135 131 189 205 196 185 ... $ V10: int 136 499 410 343 343 669 650 650 649 653 ... $ V11: int 576 159 27 1 1 1 21 23 140 22 ... $ V12: int 441 627 227 209 209 538 483 468 593 487 ... dim(annoTranscripts) [1] 367274 12 A.K.
----- Original Message ----- From: Dario Strbenac <dstr7...@uni.sydney.edu.au> To: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> Cc: Sent: Friday, October 4, 2013 8:00 AM Subject: [R] Tab Separated File Reading Error Hello, I have a seemingly simple problem that a tab-delimited file can't be read in. > annoTranscripts <- read.table("matched.txt", sep = '\t', stringsAsFactors = > FALSE) Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : line 5933 did not have 12 elements However, all lines do have 12 columns. > lines <- readLines("matched.txt") > tabsPosns <- gregexpr("\t", lines) > table(sapply(tabsPosns, length)) 11 367274 > system("wc -l matched.txt") 367274 matched.txt You can obtain the file from https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37992150/matched.txt The line does not contain comment or quote characters. What can you suggest ? > sessionInfo() R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods [7] base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_3.0.1 -------------------------------------- Dario Strbenac PhD Student University of Sydney Camperdown NSW 2050 Australia ______________________________________________ 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.