Also look at the "flush" and "fill" arguments on read.table to see if
that helps.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Ingo Reinhold <in...@kth.se> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am stuck the reading of a file which has 100s of rows and variable column
> counts.
>
> The tab-limited data file looks something like:
>
> Some_Text 1 3 123 1534 -119 1010 178
> Some_Taxt 1 3 133 1434 -219 1010 178
> Some_Tsxt 1 3 244 1334 -319 1010 178
> Some_Tfxt 1 3 153 1234 -419 1010 178
> Some_Trxt 1 3 163 1234 -519 1010 178
>
> When I try reading it using:
>
> rawData=read.table("Datafile.dat", fill=FALSE, sep="\t", header=FALSE);
>
> I get something like
>
> Some_Text 1 3 123 1534 -119 1010 178
> Some_Taxt 1 3 133 1434 -219 1010 178
> 1010
> Some_Tsxt 1 3 244 1334 -319 1010 178
> Some_Tfxt 1 3 153 1234 -419 1010 178
> -419
> Some_Trxt 1 3 163 1234 -519 1010 178
>
> I am not sure what this is. It also appear to be quenching some of the
> columns, which may be the problem. My current maximum is around 250, but this
> is not determined. When importing it the maximum table size seems to stop at
> 146.
>
> Has anyone seen this before?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ingo
>
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