On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Adam D. I. Kramer<a...@ilovebacon.org> wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Occasionally I deal with computer-generated (i.e., websurvey) data > files that haven't quite worked correctly. When I try to read the data into > R, I get something like this: > > Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, > : > line 26 did not have 648 elements > > ...is there any way to get R to tell me how many elements line 26 *did* > have? That information would take this error message from frustrating to > useful. :)
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