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NA when using read.csv

3 messages · Haibo Huang, Gabor Grothendieck, Wuming Gong

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Hi, when I used:

Dist=read.csv("test.csv",header=TRUE)

to read data from CSV file. For some cells, R
mistakenly put in as NA, while most of the cells still
appears to be right, and there is no error message in
R. I am pretty sure the csv file is all right, but
just can't figure out what went wrong. Can someone
share your thoughts with me? Thanks!

Ed
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On 8/1/05, Haibo Huang <edhuang00 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Its not likely that there are errors in this software so
its probably not a mistake but some other cause.
Read the posting guide at  the bottom of each post.
In particular, cut down the input file to a few lines that
still exhibit the problem in order to provide a reproducible 
example. 

As an aside note that 'header = TRUE' is the default in read.csv
(but not on read.table) so you don't need to specify it.
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Hi Haibo,

Are there any character "#" in the cells? By default, the things at
the right side of the character "#" will be masked as comments.

Wuming
On 8/2/05, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote: