Re: [R] Problems reading tab-delim files using read.table and read.delim

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:09 AM, mails wrote: > Hello, > > I used read.xlsx to read in Excel files but for large files it turned out to > be not very efficient. > For that reason I use a programme which writes each sheet in an Excel file > into tab-delim txt files. Note that that is how read.xls i

Re: [R] Problems reading tab-delim files using read.table and read.delim

I don't know if this completely solves your problem, but here are some arguments to read.table/read.delim you might try: row.names=FALSE fill=TRUE The details section also suggests using the colClasses argument as the number of columns is determined from the first 5 rows which may not be

[R] Problems reading tab-delim files using read.table and read.delim

Hello, I used read.xlsx to read in Excel files but for large files it turned out to be not very efficient. For that reason I use a programme which writes each sheet in an Excel file into tab-delim txt files. After that I tried using read.table and read.delim to read in those txt files. Unfortunate