On Dec 20, 2009, at 12:07 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
On Dec 19, 2009, at 11:42 PM, Jonathan wrote:
Hello again,
I am simply trying to import a rectangular table of strings. The
table's dimensions are 1990 x 2, yet my read.table() command can
only find
362 of the rows (and they're not the first 362). I would've taken
the time
to figure out how to use scan, readLines, or some other tool that
can read
in character strings, and then parse and input to a table, but that
seems
like overkill, and probably it would be good to understand what's
wrong with
my text file.
The file is here.
https://regtransfers-sth-se.diino.com/download/jonsleepy/_mydropbox_/finalInput.xls
The code is here:
temp <- as.matrix(read.table('finalInput.xls', header=FALSE, sep =
"\t"))
dim(temp) #expect 1990 x 2; but find 362 x 2
Sorry to require a download (this probably won't make people
happy), but
since my problem is file-specific, the file is needed for
troubleshooting.
There is something wrong with line 362. If you delete it and reload
the task completes.
It does complete but not because of something in line 362. What also
got changes in the process was the file name. Try changing the
extension to .csv and see if that solves the problem. It does on my
Mac running R 2.10.1 (... and I don't have an explanation.)
I generated it with some grep, gawk commands using Cygwin in a
Windows
environment (though subsequently converted it to Windows format - R
loads it
exactly the same way, regardless of whether it's in linux or
windows format)
Regards,
David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT
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