I've tried colClasses="character", fill=T, as.is=T, header=F, sep="\t", read.csv; read.delim, read.csv2, read.delim2.... don't know what else to try.
On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 11:13 AM, MacQueen, Don <macque...@llnl.gov> wrote: > 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.
