On Apr 8, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Leonardo K. Shikida wrote:

Hi

I am trying this

x <- read.table("/home/kenji/1245/GDS1_2grps_.cls", header = F, skip = 2)
x <- read.table("/home/kenji/1246/MYCset.cls", header = F, skip = 2)
Warning message:
In read.table("/home/kenji/1246/MYCset.cls", header = F, skip = 2) :
 incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on
'/home/kenji/1246/MYCset.cls'

Here are the hex's

ke...@yule:~$ hd 1245/GDS1_2grps_.cls
00000000 31 32 20 32 20 31 0a 23 20 43 44 31 39 2b 20 43 |12 2 1.# CD19+ C| 00000010 44 34 30 4c 0a 30 20 30 20 30 20 30 20 30 20 30 |D40L.0 0 0 0 0 0| 00000020 20 31 20 31 20 31 20 31 20 31 20 31 0a | 1 1 1 1 1 1.|
0000002d
ke...@yule:~$ hd 1246/
job938_MYC_RMA.gct  MYCset.cls          .MYCset.cls.swp
ke...@yule:~$ hd 1246/MYCset.cls
00000000 31 32 20 32 20 31 0a 23 20 4d 59 43 20 4e 6f 74 |12 2 1.# MYC Not| 00000010 0a 30 20 30 20 30 20 30 20 30 20 30 20 31 20 31 |.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1|
00000020  20 31 20 31 20 31 20 31                           | 1 1 1 1|
00000028

So it seems the problem is the linefeed (0a) absent in the second
file, probably generated by some evil excel or something like this.

My question is: is there any simple way to make read.table robust to
deal with this problem? I would like to avoid solutions such as
re-implement using scan or asking the user to deal with this for me,
changing himself the file.

Did the line get read?

(I have failed in my efforts on a Mac to create a file with a text editor that throws that warning.) In a sense it appears to already be "robust" , since it only generated a warning, rather than an error. If you want to programmatically turn off warnings, then:

?warnings
?options   # with a bunch of settings for warn

Perhaps inside your function you could call set warn = -1 the restore to =0 before exit.

options(warn=-1)
read.table( ...  )
options(warn=0)

Thanks in advance

Leonardo K. Shikida
Vetta Labs
+55(31)2551-6936 ext 203
http://www.vettalabs.com

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