Well yeah it works fine for small data but when i tried the exact same command with a large data set (abt 167 rows and 4000 columns) it gave me a different data frame. either i get the first column as row names and so when i put data[1,1] i get the the first row second column data (from the original data) as the first row became row names. or if i explicitly put row.names = NULL i get my columns shifted.
this is how the data should look > tdata[1,1:3] timestamp system.system.nfs_ops system.system.cifs_ops 1 1299376803 1104233 0 and this is how i'm able to load the data row.names timestamp system.system.nfs_ops system.system.cifs_ops 1 1299376803 1104233 0 0 notice the shift in the first column i hope this makes my problem clearer -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/read-csv-help-tp3677454p3677586.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.