How are you sure it moved the data? What is the column separator that you have? Is it just 'white space' as opposed to a tab or comma? It you have a CSV file with a separator, the system knows where the columns are. If it sees 'a b c' and then 'a c' as the next row, 'c' will be in column 2 even though you thought 'b' was missing.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:39 AM, skrug <sk...@ifm-geomar.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I am just starting using R. Hence, sorry for asking probably rather easy > questions. > > I used "read.table" to bring an .txt Table to R. Unfortunately the columns > do not have the same length. I tried "fill=TRUE", to fill the blank space > with "na". In a certain kind of way it worked, but befor filling the spaces > it moved data from later columns to the first: > > 1 a b c 1 a b c > 2 a b c 2 a b c 3 a b c > 3 a b c 4 b c 4 b c NA > 5 c 5 c NA NA > > What is my mistake? > > Thank you > Sebastian > > > -- > *************************************************************************************************************** > > Dipl. Biol. Sebastian Krug > PhD - student > IFM - GEOMAR > Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences > Research Division 2 - Marine Biogeochemistry > Düsternbrooker Weg 20 > D - 24105 Kiel > Germany > > Tel.: +49 431 600-4282 > Fax.: +49 431 600-4446 > email: sk...@ifm-geomar.de > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.
