Message-ID: <42330960.402@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2005-03-12T15:23:12Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: Errors reading data file?
In-Reply-To: <4230F02C.7090402@subtlety.com>
Chris Bergstresser wrote:
> Hi all --
>
> I tried loading a data file with the following command:
>
> > data = read.table("filename.txt", header = TRUE, sep = ",")
>
> This appeared to work fine, except it silently skipped 400 records
> (out of 1200). It turns out, some of the text fields included quotes,
> and I needed to use 'quote = ""'.
> Why wasn't there an error message? Is there some way to enable one?
>
> -- Chris
>
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Can you please specify a very short example (5 lines or so) that you
think fails without appropriate error message?
Uwe Ligges