I can't determine what is going on in you example, but my approach would be to read the text file into a text editor that will display hidden characters (tab, etc.) so you can see the pattern. It could be that there is an extra tab in some locations. You could then use the editor's replace function to remove the control characters that are causing the problem.
Giovanni Dall'Olio wrote: > > Hi people, > I have a text file like this one posted: > > > When I use read.delim (or any read function) on it, R skips the first > column, and I don' understand why. > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/read.delim-skips-first-column-%28why-%29-tp24466023p25696875.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.
