On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, McGehee, Robert wrote: > Thanks for this. > > I tried switching the file extension from txt to tab, but it seems to > still split on whitespace rather than tabs. > > My goal is to create a file that is both readable by R and by a > spreadsheet program, and that may contain white spaces. If tab-delimited > separation is not currently supported on load time, a CSV file would > also be a natural candidate. Unfortunately for me, it seems that R > expects the CSV file in the 'data' subdirectory to be delimited by > semi-colons rather than commas (which seems odd and might be worthy of > mention in the Writing R Extensions Manual), and the particular > spread-sheet program I use uses commas to delimit CSV files. So, then, I > think that I will be unable to use 'data' subdirectory to load this data > using data(), but any feedback on this is welcomed.
Using quotes, e.g. "A B C" may work? > > Thanks, > Robert > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:58 AM > To: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Rd] read.table error upon package installation (PR#8230) > > > What is the R error here? > > The default delimiter in read.table is not \t but whitespace, so the > first > example has 2 and 3 rows (fine for header=T) and the second has 2 and 4 > rows. > > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 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. > > Looks more like a user misunderstanding of ?data. > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel