Dear R community, I encounter a problem reading data into a dataframe. See
attachment for the input. I use:
data<-read.table("test",fill=T,row.names=1)
When you look at "data" you can see that some lines of my input were
broken... I can avoid this problem by sorting the lines by length... Do I
have it wrong or is there a bug?
Thanks and wishing you a great remainder of the day,
Georg.
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Georg Ehret
JHU
Baltimore - US
read.table
4 messages · Georg Ehret, Ben Bolker, John Kane +1 more
Georg Ehret <georgehret <at> gmail.com> writes:
Dear R community, I encounter a problem reading data into a dataframe. See attachment for the input.
[snip] The attachment didn't get through to the list. Simplest thing to do (if you can) is to post it somewhere and give us the URL. Ben Bolker
--- Ben Bolker <bolker at ufl.edu> wrote:
Georg Ehret <georgehret <at> gmail.com> writes:
Dear R community, I encounter a problem reading
data into a dataframe. See
attachment for the input.
[snip] The attachment didn't get through to the list. Simplest thing to do (if you can) is to post it somewhere and give us the URL. Ben Bolker
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Georg Ehret wrote:
Dear R community, I encounter a problem reading data into a dataframe. See
attachment for the input. I use:
data<-read.table("test",fill=T,row.names=1)
When you look at "data" you can see that some lines of my input were
broken... I can avoid this problem by sorting the lines by length... Do I
have it wrong or is there a bug?
Hi George, I'm making a total guess here, but you may be trying to read a data file in which the lines have been "wrapped" by an editor or other program. Pretty much all of the data reading functions read line by line, and if lines are broken, especially unevenly, at best you get scrambled data in your target data object. Jim