I tried to read the table bellow (table goes on with 54 rows) with
the read.table
...
What "length" is the error message referring to?
The number of columns in each row. Apparently, it was different in
at least two rows.
Possible causes:
1) repeated tabs, when there should've been one only. From the
format of the data you provided, this looks possible. With \t
representing a tab, R will interpret "3\t\t7" as a 3, two
separators, with a non-value between them (NA), and a 7 rather
than 3, separator, 7. If you're comfortable with vi, you can find
these in your file by ":s/\t\t" (without the quotes, of course).
grep gets confused on my system between \t being a "t" and
a tab. If you're certain that there are no deliberately blank
entries (check this!), you can remove repeated tabs inside vi with
:1,$s,\t\t*,\t,g
2) trailing tabs. Again, from within vi, you can clean these
up by
:1,$s,[\t ]*,,
which clears trailing spaces and tabs.
I usually leave a few perl, awk, or sed scripts lying around
just for such tidy-ups (plus empty lines, leading spaces, and
other annoyances). Keeps me from having to remember all the
things that have bitten me before.
Cheers
Jason
Indigo Industrial Controls Ltd.
64-21-343-545
jasont at indigoindustrial.co.nz
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