Look at ?count.fields to diagnose this. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Joan-Josep Vallbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I've tried it with read.delim: > > ayuso <- read.delim("/Users/user/Rwork/ayusotriada.txt") > > and now the error message is "Error with make.names(col.names, unique = > TRUE) : > string multibyte 187 invalid" > > thanks! > > > > On 02/10/2008, at 12:21, Joan-Josep Vallbé wrote: > >> Hello everybody, >> >> I'm a new user and I'm trying to use read.table with a tab delimited >> file but the system tells me (i) that there are more columns than >> column names, and (ii) that headers and col.names are of different >> lengths. I have already checked my variable names and there's no blank >> spaces. However, some variables have quite long names such as >> "valoracion.experiencias.segundo.year". Could it be the problem? If >> that is the case, I still don't understand why I have more columns >> that column names. Could anyone help me with that? >> >> Thank you very much! >> >> >> Joan-Josep Vallbé >> Institute of Law and Technology >> Political Science Department >> Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> [[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. > > Joan-Josep Vallbé > Institute of Law and Technology > Political Science Department > Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. >
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