Re: [R] Function read.table(…) reads in only 40% of a my table's lines

2013-08-05 Thread David Winsemius
On Aug 5, 2013, at 4:11 AM, Asis Hallab wrote: > Dear R experts, > > I have a large table saved in a file called "plant_genome.gff". The > file has 481848 lines in nine columns, which are TAB delimited, and is > 53 MegaBytes large. > For anyone who might know the GFF3 format: The table holds a p

Re: [R] Function read.table(…) reads in only 40% of a my table's lines

2013-08-05 Thread Asis Hallab
Dear Jim, 2013/8/5 jim holtman : > Couple of things to try. May have an extra quote, so put: > > quote = '' thank you very much. That did the trick. Much obliged! > > as one of the parameters. Also, might have comments, so try: > > comment.char = "" > > Take alook at your file and determine

Re: [R] Function read.table(…) reads in only 40% of a my table's lines

2013-08-05 Thread jim holtman
Couple of things to try. May have an extra quote, so put: quote = '' as one of the parameters. Also, might have comments, so try: comment.char = "" Take alook at your file and determine what line was the last complete one and see if there might be a problem in that line, or preceeding ones.