Tables
How are you sure it moved the data? What is the column separator that you have? Is it just 'white space' as opposed to a tab or comma? It you have a CSV file with a separator, the system knows where the columns are. If it sees 'a b c' and then 'a c' as the next row, 'c' will be in column 2 even though you thought 'b' was missing.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:39 AM, skrug <skrug at ifm-geomar.de> wrote:
Hi, I am just starting using R. Hence, sorry for asking probably rather easy questions. I used "read.table" to bring an .txt Table to R. Unfortunately the columns do not have the same length. I tried "fill=TRUE", to fill the blank space with "na". In a certain kind of way it worked, but befor filling the spaces it moved data from later columns to the first: 1 ? ?a ? b ? c ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?1 ? a ? b ? c 2 ? a ? b ? ? ?c ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?2 ? a ? b ? c ?3 ? a ? b ? ? ?c ? ? ? ? 3 ? a ? b ? ?c 4 ? ? ?b ? ? ?c ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 4 ? b ? c ? ?NA 5 ? ? ? ? ? ?c ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 5 ? c ? NA NA What is my mistake? Thank you Sebastian -- *************************************************************************************************************** Dipl. Biol. Sebastian Krug PhD - student IFM - GEOMAR Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences Research Division 2 - Marine Biogeochemistry D?sternbrooker Weg 20 D - 24105 Kiel Germany Tel.: +49 431 600-4282 Fax.: +49 431 600-4446 email: skrug at ifm-geomar.de
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