Hi Oz,
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Ouattara <B.Ouattara at swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
Dear Readers, Sorry to bother you. Have been try to read my data into R (something I have done in the past) but having an error message with this one. Any possible help please? Thanks. Oz This is the error I am getting (please see bold):
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setwd("D:/Replication/")
library(gmp)
dataFrame2=read.table("data.txt",header=T)
Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : ?line 1 did not have 58 elements
Assuming the data file is not malformed, try using a different delimitter. read.table() defaults to using space (sep = " ") I think, but your data may be tab delimitted (sep = "\t"), or comma (sep = ","), or ... If you are not certain, open your data in a regular text editor, and see what sort of stuff is in between each cell (i.e., how can you tell where one cell stops and another starts). I think space, commas, and tabs, are the most common, but there are many others. More generally, look through the documentation for ?read.table to get ideas for what different arguments you might try to properly read in your data. Hope this helps, Josh
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