Message-ID: <dae9a2a60904301101q46936d58g6838b2a4e2b3af40@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-04-30T18:01:31Z
From: Dimitri Liakhovitski
Subject: problem in reading data
In-Reply-To: <23316321.post@talk.nabble.com>
What kind of .txt file is it? If it's a tab-delimited file, try
read.delim("tt_mb_200409.txt")
Dimitri
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:28 AM, tedzzx <zengzhenxing at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear R users
> I am runing into a problem in reading data in R
> This is the error information
>
> a<-read.table("tt_mb_200409.txt",as.is=T)
> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,
> :
> ?line 1653997 did not have 5 elements
>
> It seams that some lines don't have equal variables. I want to try
>
>> a<-read.table("tt_mb_200409.txt",as.is=T,fill=T)
>> a[1653997,]
> ? ? ? ? ? V1 ? ? ?V2 ? ? ? ?V3 ? ? V4 ? ? V5
> 1653997 00992 2777010
>
> But, I want to delect the rows that do not have the same number of variables
> with others, how can I do this?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ted
>
>
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Dimitri Liakhovitski
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