On Monday, April 23, 2012 at 11:44 PM Thomas S. Dye wrote:
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> The documentation of read.table has this:
> The number of data columns is determined by looking at the first five lines
> of input (or the whole file if it has less than five lines), or from the
> length of col.names if it is specified and is longer. This could conceivably
> be wrong if fill or blank.lines.skip are true, so specify col.names if
> necessary (as in the ‘Examples’).
> The example is this:
> read.csv(tf, fill = TRUE, header = FALSE,
> col.names = paste("V", seq_len(ncol), sep = ""))
> where read.csv is a synonym of read.table with preset arguments.
> This explains why the sixth line wraps.
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Thanks, Tom. I had just run across this myself. I guess I need to walk a mile
in somebody's moccasins before complaining, but this behavior on the part of R
seems totally stupid to me.
I'm going to have to mull this over some more.
-- Mike
