read.table() vs read.delim() any difference??

Hi,

I have a tab seperated file with 206 rows and 30 columns.

I read in the file into R using read.table() function. I checked the dim()
of the data frame created in R, it had only 103 rows (exactly half), 30
columns. Then I tried reading in the file using read.delim() function and
this time the dim() showed to be 206 rows, 30 columns as expected.
Reading the read.table() R-help documentation, I came across count.fields()
function. On using that on the tab seperated file, I got to learn that the
header line alone has 30 fields and rest of the rows have 9 fields. I am
now just wondering why read.delim() function was able to read in the file
correctly and read.table() wasn't able to read the file completely ?

Could anyone please throw some light on this?

Thanks for your valuable time,

Regards
Sashi

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