Hi there,
I have a data set file, called "ecotox.rep", which is a delimited file
separated with "|".
When I tried to read the file with the following command,
> df <- read.table("ecotox.rep", sep = "|", header = TRUE,
stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
I got the error messages:
Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec =
dec, :
line 113 did not have 87 elements
However, when I read the file with the following command,
> df <- read.delim("ecotox.rep", sep = "|", header = TRUE,
stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
I got a correct output.
If I understand correctly, read.delim() is just wrapped from
read.table(), why read.delim() works, but read.table() doesn't.
Thanks in advance.
Best,
Jinsong
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