Qtl - package - Question

Dear R-Helpers,
I am using qtl package to analyze qtl data from QTL cartographer.

I have the map file and cro file from QTL cartographer. I was trying to
import these two files in R using qtl package.

data=read.cross("qtlcart", ".", "crofile.txt", "mapfile.txt") ### I have
matched the file structure with the one on the website of qtl package - It
matches perfectly.

It gives me the following error:

data.qtl <- read.cross("qtlcart", "F:/data",

+             file="crofile.txt", mapfile="mapfile.txt")
Error in names(x) <- value :
  'names' attribute [9] must be the same length as the vector [0]

I checked the code for read.cross function in the package

read.map.qtlcart("mapfile.txt") works fine...

The problem was in the following function:
read.cro.qtlcart("crofile.txt")

I tried to debug and find the problem:

debug: traits <- t(f[-(1:(2 + nmarkers)), ])
debug: traits = as.data.frame(traits)
debug: if (nrow(traits) == 1) traits <- as.data.frame(t(traits))
******************data frame with 0 columns and 102 rows**************** ---
This is the problem portion ---It should read my 9 trait values for all the
102 individuals.
*************************It should have 9 col. and 102 rows.. but it is
unable to do so...
debug: colnames(traits) <- trait.names
Browse[1]> n
Error in names(x) <- value :
  'names' attribute [9] must be the same length as the vector [0]

It cannot read my trait values - I have 102 individuals, each with 9 trait
values.

Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem? Any help would be great.

Thanks and Best Regards,
S.

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R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] qtl_1.14-2 plyr_0.1.9

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