Try looking at the result of count.fields to diagnose it. On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:19 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I have been using 'read.table' regularly to read tab-delimited text files > with data. No problem, until now. > Now I have a file that appeared to have read fine, and the data inside looks > correct (structure etc), except I only had 15000+ rows out of the expected > 24000. Using 'readLines' instead, and breaking up the data by tabs, gives me > the expected result. > I do not understand why this is happening and I can't find anything obvious > in the data to explain the bahaviour... > Does anybody have an explanation? something to watch out for? > > If I run this I get the incomplete set: >> >> >> oldprobesets<-read.table("All_norm_calls.txt",sep="\t",header=T,stringsAsFactors=F) >> dim(oldprobesets) > > [1] 15733 11 > > but I get the right data if I use: > >> probesets<-readLines("All_norm_calls.txt") >> tmp<-matrix(ncol=11,nrow=24000) >> for (i in 1:24000) tmp[i,]<-unlist(strsplit(probesets[i+1],split="\t")) >> colnames(tmp)<-unlist(strsplit(probesets[1],split="\t")) >> probesets<-data.frame(tmp,stringsAsFactors=F) >> dim(probesets) > > [1] 24000 11 > > > Here's my sessionInfo output: > >> sessionInfo() > > R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) > i386-pc-mingw32 > > locale: > LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United > Kingdom.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United > Kingdom.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets tcltk utils methods > [8] base > > other attached packages: > [1] limma_2.14.0 svSocket_0.9-5 svIO_0.9-5 R2HTML_1.59 svMisc_0.9-5 > [6] svIDE_0.9-5 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] tools_2.7.0 > > > Thanks! > > Jose > > -- > Dr. Jose I. de las Heras Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology Phone: +44 (0)131 6513374 > Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology Fax: +44 (0)131 6507360 > Swann Building, Mayfield Road > University of Edinburgh > Edinburgh EH9 3JR > UK > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. >
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