I want to import this CSV file into R. The CSV file is
,,,1968,21,0 ,,Boston,1968,13,0 ,,Boston,1968,18,0 ,,Chicago,1967,44,0 ,,Providence,1968,17,0 ,,Providence,1969,48,0 ,,Binky,1968,24,0 ,,Chicago,1968,23,0 ,,Dally,1968,7,0 ,,Raleigh, North Carol,1968,25,0 Addy ABC-Dogs Stars-W8.1,,Providence,1968,38,0 DEF_REQPRF/,,Dartmouth,1967,31,1 PL,,,1967,38,1 XY,PopatLal,,1967,5,1 XY,PopatLal,,1967,6,8 XY,PopatLal,,1967,7,7 XY,PopatLal,,1967,9,1 XY,PopatLal,,1967,10,1 XY,PopatLal,,1967,13,1 XY,PopatLal,Boston,1967,6,1 XY,PopatLal,Boston,1967,7,11 XY,PopatLal,Boston,1967,9,2 XY,PopatLal,Boston,1967,10,3 XY,PopatLal,Boston,1967,7,2 I tried using scan and read.table but results are not visible :( > scan("D:/data/temp.csv",list("","","",0,0,0),sep=",") ->x Read 51 records > x [[1]] [1] "ÿþ" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" [16] "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" [31] "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" [46] "" "" "" "" "" "" .... > read.table("D:/data/temp.csv",header=F,sep=",") ->x > x V1 V2 1 ÿþ NA 2 NA 3 NA 4 NA Can somebody please help in importing this CSV file? ______________________________________________ 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.