My guess is that there's something wrong with your file. You really don't
give us enough information to diagnose the problem, though. An encoding
issue? If you open the file in a plain text editor, what happens? What OS
are you using? Version of R?
When I copy your sample data from the email into a text file, deleting the
blank lines, it opens as expected using read.table() with no additiona
arguments.
Sarah
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Daniel Alcock <d...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi I hope someone can shed some light on this:
>
>
>
> For some reason when I
>
>
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> read.table("bfx.txt")
>
>
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> R decides to only give back the first character from each column in each row
> as one single column.
>
>
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> Like this:
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>
> V1
>
> 1 яюr
>
> 2 \n
>
> 3 r
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> 4 1
>
> 5 0
>
> 6 A
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> 7 G
>
> 8 \n
>
> 9 r
>
> 10 1
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> 11 0
>
> 12 T
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> 13 C
>
> 14 \n
>
>
>
> The data should be:
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>
> rs153410928 153410928 0.98802328 A G
>
> rs153411383 153411383 0.988026211 G A
>
> rs153411809 153411809 0.988028954 A G
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> rs153411854 153411854 0.988029244 A G
>
> rs153413052 153413052 0.988036959 T C
>
>
>
> so not only is it screwing the data it's also missing the first 3 lines. Is
> this something I've done? I've tried dos2unix to make sure the files are ok,
> added colClasses="character", sep=" " etc but with no success.
>
>
>
> I'm just about at the end of my tether right now so any help will be
> gratefully received!
>
>
>
> Dan
>
>
--
Sarah Goslee
http://www.functionaldiversity.org
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