Upon upgrading to R 2.2.0 on my Windows box, I found that one of my packages no longer compiled, giving this error:
Error in read.table(zfile, header =3D TRUE) : more columns than column names Execution halted After removing every line of code from my package and still not being able to compile it, I found the error to be related to a .txt file in my data directory. I reduced my data file to a very simple example which causes the error, and a nearly identical file which does not cause the problem. A file with these contents causes the error (I am using \t to indicate the usual tab delimiter). x \t y A B C \t DEF However, if I remove one of the spaces between A and B or B and C, the package compiles fine: x \t y A BC \t DEF I can only guess that there is some kind of parsing problem when there is more than one space between tab delimiters. Robert > version _ =20 platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 =20 os mingw32 =20 system i386, mingw32 =20 status =20 major 2 =20 minor 2.0 =20 year 2005 =20 month 10 =20 day 06 =20 svn rev 35749 =20 language R =20 This e-mail, and any attachments hereto, are intended for us...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel