Try
read.table(....,fill=TRUE)
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:00 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get the following error when I try to read in a CSV file:
>
>> Path<-read.table('MetaCycSample2.csv',sep=',', header=FALSE)
> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, :
> line 17 did not have 5 elements
>
> Some of the rows have more columns than others. Also when I try the read.csv
> command, the very last column, which only has one cell with a value, doesn't
> get read, so that last cell is lost.
>
> How can I fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> -Nina
>
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