Anyone See a Problem with my Header/Data?

On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Lost in R wrote:

First time using R. Having problems importing my data. Can anyone  
take a look
at my data to see if there is something stupid that I'm doing? This  
is the
error that I'm getting.

<- read.table("C:\\CM3_DATASET.out.txt",
+ sep="\t",header=TRUE)
Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines,  
na.strings,
:
line 1 did not have 194 elements

http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows&s=excel

(You offer a link to an .xlsx file but you are attempting to read  
a .txt file?)
Presuming you used the save as ... tab or comma separators

count.fields() is a useful function at this stage of data input tasks.

You have a bunch of unmatched single-quotes. Try ignoring them with a  
modification of the defaults for read.table.

 > count.fields("~/Downloads/Data_Sample.csv",  sep=",", quote='"')
  [1] 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192  
192
 > count.fields("~/Downloads/Data_Sample.txt",  sep="\t", quote='"')
  [1] 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192 192  
192
 >

Thanks in Advance....

lost http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4177606/Data_Sample.xlsx
Data_Sample.xlsx

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