Thanks for your advice! I still get the same error, though -- not sure why.
> read.table('don.5.clusters.txt', header = TRUE, comment.char = '', quote ='') Error in read.table("don.5.clusters.txt", header = TRUE, comment.char = "", : more columns than column names Any other thoughts? -- Donald Braman http://ssrn.com/author=286206 http://www.culturalcognition.net/braman/ http://www.law.gwu.edu/Faculty/profile.aspx?id=10123 Henrique Dallazuanna Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:11:33 -0700 Try this: read.table('don.5.clusters.txt', header = TRUE, comment.char = '', quote = '') On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Donald Braman <dbra...@law.gwu.edu> wrote: > That's one of the things I tried, but which didn't work. I get the > following > error when I do that: > > Error in read.table(file = "don.5.clusters.txt", header = TRUE, > comment.char > = "", : > more columns than column names > > If I remove the hashes by other means, I don't get that error. > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Duncan Murdoch > <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On 26/10/2010 10:33 AM, Donald Braman wrote: > > > >> I'm importing a lot of text tables of data (from Latent Gold) that > >> includes > >> hashes in some of the column names ("Cluster#1", "Cluster#2", etc.). Is > >> there an easy way to strip the offending hashes out before pushing the > >> text > >> into a table or data frame? I thought I'd use gsub, e.g., but can't > >> figure > >> out how to read in a text file without reading it into a table or data > >> frame > >> (which would be ill structured, given the hashes). I could do it in > >> another > >> scripting language or shell script, but would like to try to do it in R. > >> > > > > readLines() will read it, but you may not need to do that. Set > > comment.char="" to turn off the special meaning of # in read.table() and > > related functions. > > > > Duncan > > > > > > -- > Donald Braman > phone: 971-645-0607 > http://www.culturalcognition.net/braman/ > http://ssrn.com/author=286206 > http://www.law.gwu.edu/Faculty/profile.aspx?id=10123 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > <http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________r-h...@r-project.org mailing listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html <http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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