> On 14 Dec 2017, at 19:36, lily li <chocol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi R users,
>
> I have a question about reading from text files. The file has the structure
> below:
>
> Time Column1 Column2
> 01.01.2001-12:00:00
This line does not contain 3 elements; only one.
You'll have to fix that line. Delete it, prepend it with a comment character of
add enough columns.
Berend
> 01.01.2001-24:00:00 12 11
> 01.02.2001-12:00:00 13 10
> 01.02.2001-24:00:00 11 12
> 01.03.2001-12:00:00 15 11
> 01.03.2001-24:00:00 16 10
> ...
>
> I just use the simple script to open it: df = read.table('DATAM', head=T).
>
> But it has the error and thus cannot read the file:
> Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec =
> dec, :
> line 1 did not have 3 elements
>
> How to read it with three fixed columns, and how to read the time format in
> the first column correctly? Thanks for your help.
>
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