You can also try:
readLines(...)
This seems to be able to read in difficult txt files.
Good luck.
--- On Wed, 8/5/09, hannesPretorius <talk2han...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: hannesPretorius <talk2han...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [R] i'm so stuck with text file and contour plot
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 4:09 AM
>
> When I read the entire text file in I get the following
> message
>
> > x <- read.table('c:/small.txt', sep='\t',
> header=TRUE)
> Warning message:
> number of items read is not a multiple of the number of
> columns.
>
> thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> hannesPretorius wrote:
> >
> > Ok i feel pretty stupid.. been trying to read a text
> file that contains
> > heading in the first line in to R but cant. all i need
> to do is make a
> > contour plot for a friend but after weeks i feel like
> giving up.. i
> > included the first few lines of the file.. any help
> will be great
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Hannes http://www.nabble.com/file/p24777697/small.txt
> small.txt
> >
>
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