Hi Carol I cannot reproduce what you're seeing.
> tmp <- read.table(text = "absfjdslf + jfdldskjff + jfsldfjslk") > str(tmp) 'data.frame': 3 obs. of 1 variable: $ V1: Factor w/ 3 levels "absfjdslf","jfdldskjff",..: 1 2 3 > tmp <- read.table(text = "absfjdslf + jfdldskjff + jfsldfjslk", + colClasses = "character") > str(tmp) 'data.frame': 3 obs. of 1 variable: $ V1: chr "absfjdslf" "jfdldskjff" "jfsldfjslk" Yours sincerely / Med venlig hilsen Frede Aakmann Tøgersen Specialist, M.Sc., Ph.D. Plant Performance & Modeling Technology & Service Solutions T +45 9730 5135 M +45 2547 6050 fr...@vestas.com http://www.vestas.com Company reg. name: Vestas Wind Systems A/S This e-mail is subject to our e-mail disclaimer statement. Please refer to www.vestas.com/legal/notice If you have received this e-mail in error please contact the sender. > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of carol white > Sent: 26. juni 2014 09:33 > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] read a file of text with read.table > > It might be a primitive question but I have a file of text and there is no > separator between character on each line and the strings on each line have > the same length. The format is like the following > > absfjdslf > jfdldskjff > jfsldfjslk > > When I read the file with read.table("myfile",colClasses = "character"), > instead of putting the strings in a table of number of rows x length of > string, > read.table saves the file in a table of number of rows x 1 and each element > seems to be a factor. Why does read.table not account for colClasses = > "character"? > > thanks, > > Carol > [[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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
