Bug in read.table (PR#463)

I want to report a bug in read.table.  The attached output demonstrates
the bug.  Unfortunately, the data file contains confidential information
and hence cannot be attached.  Is there any way to figure out the cause 
of the bug and fix it?  Thanks.

Here's the output in readable form. The bug seems to be that
count.fields() thinks the records are the same length but read.table
doesn't.

	-thomas


[venkat@msk-130-153 venkat]$ R

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Version 1.0.0  (February 29, 2000)

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options(width=72)
count.fields("Consult/krasdata",sep="\t")

[1] 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18
 [23] 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18
 [45] 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18
 [67] 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18
 [89] 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18

read.table("Consult/krasdata",sep="\t")

row.lens=
  [1] 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18
 [23] 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18
 [45] 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18  1  1 18 18 18 18 18 18 18
 [67] 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18
 [89] 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18
Error in read.table("Consult/krasdata", sep = "\t") :
        all rows must have the same length.

version

_
platform i686-unknown-linux
arch     i686
os       linux
system   i686, linux
status
major    1
minor    0.0
year     2000
month    February
day      29
language R

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