Reading a tab delimitted text
Srinivas Iyyer wrote:
Dear group, I have a tab delimitted text file with 21 column and 1988 rows. When I read the file: D1 <- read.table(file="gist_data1.txt",sep="\t",header=T)
dim(D1)
[1] 1811 20 It reads only 1811 rows from that file. I saved this file as CSV file and I read it again using:
D1 <-
read.csv(file="gist_data1.txt",sep=",",header=T)
dim(D1)
[1] 1987 1 This timer it reaad correct number of rows and wrong column numbers. Can any one suggest how to read a tab-delimited text file and read in corect number of lines. thank you.
Check for the presence of unexpected comment characters or quote characters in the file you are reading. Alternatively, try setting quote='', comment='' in the call to read.table.