Doubtful. The OP did have spaces in his header. but by specifying that
only tabs should be used as delimiters the default parameters to both
read.table and read.csv would have converted the spaces to periods.
See:
read.table(file="http://www.nabble.com/file/p24777697/small.txt";,
sep="\t", header=TRUE)
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On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Tal Galili wrote:
Hi Hannes,
From my experience, this error usually happens when you've got
spaces in the
header row, in the column names.
An easy solution would be to open the file in excel, then run
search-and-replace on the header row for all spaces and replace them
with a
hyphen "-".
Hope it helped (please let us know if it did)
With kind regards,
Tal
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:09 PM, hannesPretorius <talk2han...@gmail.com
>wrote:
When I read the entire text file in I get the following message
x <- read.table('c:/small.txt', sep='\t', header=TRUE)
Warning message:
number of items read is not a multiple of the number of columns.
thanks.
hannesPretorius wrote:
Ok i feel pretty stupid.. been trying to read a text file that
contains
heading in the first line in to R but cant. all i need to do is
make a
contour plot for a friend but after weeks i feel like giving up.. i
included the first few lines of the file.. any help will be great
Thanks
Hannes http://www.nabble.com/file/p24777697/small.txt small.txt
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