read.table 2005-02-25 - By Sean Davis
I have a commonly recurring problem and wondered if folks would share tips. I routinely get tab-delimited text files that I need to read in. In very many cases, I get:
> a <- read.table('junk.txt.txt',header=T,skip=10,sep="\t") Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec = dec, : line 67 did not have 88 elements
I am typically able to go through the file and find a single quote or something like that causing the problem, but with a recent set of files, I haven't been able to find such an issue. What can I do to get around this problem? I can use perl, also....
Thanks, Sean
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