Did you try skipping the header as one respondent mentioned? read.table(..., skip = 1, header = FALSE)
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Joan-Josep Vallbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I've done ?count.fields and it helped me identify a blank space that I > had not noticed (thanks!), but when I try to upload the table again with > > ayuso <- read.table("/Users/user/Rwork/ayusotriada.txt", header=TRUE, > sep="\t", na.strings="NA", dec=".", strip.white=TRUE) > > or with read.delim, the error message "Error with make.names(col.names, > unique = >> >>> TRUE) : >>> string multibyte 187 invalid > > still appears. thanks! > > > > On 02/10/2008, at 14:30, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >> 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. >>> > > 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.