By default for read.table, comment.char = "#"
so the first line was being treated as a comment line, and when you specified row.names="#", read.table couldn't find that column. On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:07 PM, esawdust <lan...@360vl.com> wrote: > > > esawdust wrote: > > > > Here's the contents of a simple test2.csv CSV file: > > > > #,Status,Project > > 5842,New,Test > > > >> snortalerts = read.table( "/Users/lcox/Documents/test2.csv", > header=TRUE, > >> sep=",", row.names="#") > > Error in data[[rowvar]] : attempt to select less than one element > > > > Landon > > > > Figured out the answer, though it wasn't obvious (to me anyway). The > symbol > "#" used as the first column label was the problem. I changed that to be > "id" and changed the read.table to be: > > snortalerts <- read.table( "/Users/lcox/Documents/test2.csv", header=TRUE, > sep=",", row.names="id") > > and it worked fine. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Simple-question-about-error-on-CSV-import-tp25242899p25243159.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Levi Waldron post-doctoral fellow Jurisica Lab, Ontario Cancer Institute Division of Signaling Biology TMDT 9-304D 101 College Street Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7 (416)581-7453 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
