Some indication of what you have tried would be useful. Assuming you are using read.table(), then the "fill" argument of read.table() might be what you need. If you look at the help for read.table you will find:
>From ?read.table: fill: logical. If 'TRUE' then in case the rows have unequal length, blank fields are implicitly added. See 'Details'. -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 5/9/15, 7:59 AM, "Kate Ignatius" <kate.ignat...@gmail.com> wrote: >I have some data that I've trouble importing... > >A B C D E >A 1232 0.565 >B 2323 0.5656 0.5656 0.5656 >C 2323 0.5656 >D 2323 0.5656 >E 2323 0.5656 >F 2323 0.5656 >G 2323 0.5656 >G 2323 0.5656 0.5656 0.5656 > >When I input the data it seems to go like this: > >SampleID ItemB ItemC ItemD ItemE >A 1232 0.565 >B 2323 0.5656 >0.5656 0.5656 >C 2323 0.5656 >D 2323 0.5656 >E 2323 0.5656 >F 2323 0.5656 >G 2323 0.5656 >G 2323 0.5656 0.5656 0.5656 > >with the last two columns (or the two columns with vast amounts of >missing data which are usually the last two = see SampleB) wrapping >around - is there away to prevent this? > >Thanks! > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.