You need to supply the actual input line so we can see what is happening.
Are you sure you do not have unbalanced quotes in your input (try quote='')
or do you have comment characters ("#") in your input?On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Martin Tomko <martin.to...@geo.uzh.ch>wrote: > Dear All, > I am observing a strange behavior and searching the archives and help pages > didn't help much. > I have a csv with a variable number of fields in each line. > > I use > dataPoints <- read.csv(inputFile, head=FALSE, sep=";",fill =TRUE); > > to read it in, and it works. But - some lines are long and 'wrap', or split > and continue on the next line. So when I check the dim of the frame, they > are not correct and I can see when I do a printout that the lines is split > into two in the frame. I checked the input file and all is good. > > an example of the input is: > 37;2175168475;13;8.522729;47.19537;16366...@n00 > ;30;sculpture;bird;tourism;animal;statue;canon;eos;rebel;schweiz;switzerland;eagle;swiss;adler;skulptur;zug;1750;28;tamron;f28;canton;tourismus;vogel;baar;kanton;xti;tamron1750;1750mm;tamron1750mm;400d;rabbitriotnet; > > where the last values occurs on the next line in the data frame. > > It does not have to be the last value, as in the follwong example, the word > "kempten" starts the next line: > 39;167757703;12;10.309295;47.724545;21903...@n00 > ;36;white;building;tower;clock;clouds;germany;bayern;deutschland;bavaria;europa;europe;eagle;adler;eu;wolke;dome;townhall;rathaus;turm;weiss;allemagne;europeanunion;bundesrepublik;gebaeude;glocke;brd;allgau;kuppel;europ;kempten;niemcy;europo;federalrepublic;europaischeunion;europaeischeunion;germanio; > > What could be the reason? > > I ws thinking about solving the issue by using a different separator, that > I would use for the first 7 fields and concatenating all of the remaining > values into a single stirng value, but could not figure out how to do such a > substitution in R. Unfortunately, on my system I cannot specify a range for > sed... > > Thanks for any help/pointers > Martin > > ______________________________________________ > 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? [[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.
