Message-ID: <x2hdclf4f4.fsf@turmalin.kubism.ku.dk>
Date: 2005-09-16T14:55:27Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: help required on read.table
In-Reply-To: <139ef1c2050916071660688974@mail.gmail.com>
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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