[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > (1) read.table(), with sep="\t", identifies 13 our of 1400 records, > in a file with 1400 records of 3 fields each, as having only 2 fields. > This happens under version 2.3.1 for Windows as well as with > R 2.3.1 for Mac OS X, and with R-devel under Mac OS X. > [R version 2.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-07-03 r38478)] > > (2) Using read.table() with sep="\t", the first 1569 records only > of a 1821 record file are input. The file has exactly two fields > in each record, and the minimum length of the second field is > 1 character. If however I extract lines 1561 to 1650 from the > file (the file "short.txt" below), all 90 lines are input.
Notice that the single quote is a quote character in read.table (as opposed to read.delim, which uses only the double quote, to cater for TAB-separated files from Excel & friends). > [1] "865\tlinear model (lm)! Cook's distance\t152" ^ !!!! (This reminds me that we probably should shift the default for comment.char too since it leads to similar issues, but it seems not to be the problem in this case.) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Ă˜ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel