Tried deleting several line above and below line 362; did that and changed the extension. Still finds the same number of rows (362).
Strange! Jonathan On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:19 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote: > > 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 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > David Winsemius, MD > Heritage Laboratories > West Hartford, CT > > [[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.
