Tables

Hi,

I am just starting using R. Hence, sorry for asking probably rather easy
questions.

I used "read.table" to bring an .txt Table to R. Unfortunately the columns
do not have the same length. I tried "fill=TRUE", to fill the blank space
with "na". In a certain kind of way it worked, but befor filling the spaces
it moved data from later columns to the first:

1 ? ?a ? b ? c ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?1 ? a ? b ? c
2 ? a ? b ? ? ?c ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?2 ? a ? b ? c ?3 ? a ? b ? ? ?c
? ? ? ? 3 ? a ? b ? ?c 4 ? ? ?b ? ? ?c ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 4 ? b ? c ? ?NA
5 ? ? ? ? ? ?c ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 5 ? c ? NA NA

What is my mistake?

Thank you
Sebastian


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Dipl. Biol. Sebastian Krug
PhD - student
IFM - GEOMAR
Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences
Research Division 2 - Marine Biogeochemistry
D?sternbrooker Weg 20
D - 24105 Kiel
Germany

Tel.: +49 431 600-4282
Fax.: +49 431 600-4446
email: skrug at ifm-geomar.de

Hi,

I am just starting using R. Hence, sorry for asking probably rather easy 

questions.

I used "read.table" to bring an .txt Table to R. Unfortunately the 
columns do not have the same length. I tried "fill=TRUE", to fill the 
blank space with "na". In a certain kind of way it worked, but befor 
filling the spaces it moved data from later columns to the first:

1    a   b   c                  1   a   b   c
2   a   b      c                  2   a   b   c 
3   a   b      c                   3   a   b    c 
4      b      c                     4   b   c    NA
5            c                       5   c   NA NA

What is my mistake?

Thank you
Sebastian


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Dipl. Biol. Sebastian Krug
PhD - student
IFM - GEOMAR
Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences
Research Division 2 - Marine Biogeochemistry
D?sternbrooker Weg 20
D - 24105 Kiel
Germany

Tel.: +49 431 600-4282
Fax.: +49 431 600-4446
email: skrug at ifm-geomar.de