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Your file has 5 commas in the first data row, but only 4 in the header. R
interprets this to mean your first column is intended to be row names (has
no corresponding column label) rather than data. (Row names are "outside"
the data frame... use str(dsh) to get a better picture.)

Basically, your file does not conform to consistent practices for csv
files of having the same number of commas in every row. If at all possible
I would eliminate the extra comma. If you have many of these broken files,
you might need to read the data in pieces... e.g.

dsh <- read.csv( "dat.csv", header=FALSE, skip=1 )
dsh <- dsh[ , -length( dsh ) ]
dshh <- read.csv( "dat.csv", header=TRUE, nrow=1)
names( dsh ) <- names( dshh )

On Fri, 9 Nov 2018, Val wrote:

HI all,
I am trying to read a csv file, but  have a problem in the row names.
After reading, the name of the first column is now "row.names" and
all other column names are shifted to the right. The value of the last
column become all NAs( as an extra column).

My sample data looks like as follow,
filename = dat.csv
The first row has a missing value at column 3 and 5. The last row has
a missing value at column 1 and  5
x1,x2,x3,x4,x5
12,13,,14,,
22,23,24,25,26
,33,34,34,
To read the file I used this

dsh<-read.csv(file="dat.csv",sep=",",row.names=NULL,fill=TRUE,header=TRUE,comment.char
= "", quote = "", stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

The output  from the above  is
dsh

row.names x1 x2 x3 x4 x5
1        12 13 NA 14 NA  NA
2        22 23 24 25 26  NA
3             33 34 34 NA  NA

The name of teh frist column is row,banes and all values of last columns is NAs


However, the desired output should be
x1 x2 x3 x4 x5
12 13 NA 14 NA
22 23 24 25 26
NA 33 34 34 NA


How can I fix this?
Thank you in advance

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