That makes me wonder, if one could devise a function to check for common reasons for this error and report them.
What do you think Erik (and other R users) ? I mean, just going through the R-help list in search of this error - could yield many common reasons to check for... Tal ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Erik Iverson <er...@ccbr.umn.edu> wrote: > I had a comment character "#" in my header names earlier today that threw > this error. > > > Euphoria wrote: > >> Hi all! I am desperately trying to figure out the solution to this error, >> but >> nothing as of yet is working. >> As noted in an earlier post I am using GenABEL. In an attempt to read in >> the phenotype file, in the format .dat, R keeps giving me the error "more >> columns than column names" >> >> I have tried to read in the data without the headers; I have also tried to >> trim the data to remove any trailing tabs or spaces but it doesn't solve >> the >> problem. All missing values have been replaced with "NA", and all data >> seems to have matching corresponding header value - each column has a >> matching column name. >> >> What could be the possible underlying problem? I have tried to >> problem-solve >> but clearly I am at a loss. Thanks for your help! >> Code: >> mix <- load.gwaa.data (phe = "Z:/CCFPhenotypesTAB.dat", gen = >> "pedmap-0.raw", force = T) >> > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[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.
