On 26-03-2012, at 08:16, Ashish Agarwal wrote: > Why does the output in the following say 2 and not 6? > >> count.fields(textConnection("LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,,1971,8,2 > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Bhutan,1971,6,1 > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,China,1971,17,1 > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,China,1971,33,1 > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,HongKong,1971,16,2 > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,HongKong,1971,17,1 > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,HongKong,1971,22,1 > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,HongKong,1971,49,1 > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Kazakhstan,1971,20,1 > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Kazakhstan,1971,27,1 > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Kazakhstan,1971,33,1 > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Kazakhstan,1973,15,1 > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Romania-Europe,1971,10,1 > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Romania-Europe,1973,4,1 > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Sanchez-America,1973,9,1 > + LL1532An,ABC# Depot-A-,,1971,8,2"),sep=",") > [1] 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 >> >
Have you done ?count.fields and read what it says about the argument "sep" and the default? So if a comma is the separator what value would you give sep? Berend ______________________________________________ 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.