Thanks to all who posted. After trying all of the above-listed options - the error is still popping up, but here is some progress:
1) I can read in the file just fine when I use the read.table statement and specify it as a tab delimited file using the code: two <- read.table("Z:/CCFPhenotypesTAB.dat", head=TRUE, sep="\t") But, my issue is with GenABEL and the load.gwaa.data statement - I need the file to be read into load.gwaa.data - unless there is another way to read in the phenotype file in GenABEL. Code: mix <- load.gwaa.data (phe = "Z:/CCFPhenotypesTAB.dat", gen = "pedmap-0.raw") 2) Also, it might help if I explained how I came about the .dat file. It was originally created in excel as a .xlsx file, which I converted to a tab delimited .txt file. I just changed the .txt extension to .dat for it to be read in R for the GenABEL package. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/R-error-more-columns-than-column-names-tp1568052p1568313.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.