help required on read.table
Krishna <snvk4u at gmail.com> writes:
Hi all i am facing a peculiar problem for data input using read.table which i never faced previously. i have a data file by name abnew.txt with two coloumns data as depicted below. A B 420 422 314 321
(with A left-justified and B right-ditto???)
the txt file is created using the excel save as option. i issued the statement as
a <- read.table("abnew.txt", header=TRUE)
a
X.??S 1 NA 2 2 3 2 4 NA 5 2 6 2 7 NA 8 2 9 2 10 NA the o/p looks like as copied above. can some one help me on correct data reading. your earliest response will help me a lot.
What do you get from readLines("abnew.txt")?
You might want to try read.delim("abnew.txt").
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