On 2016/12/23 11:31, Sarah Goslee wrote:
Look at the default arguments to each, especially the quote argument.
Sarah
Thank you very much!
The quote and fill argument are not same for the two function. only
change quote or fill can not make read.table() work.
Best,
Jinsong
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Jinsong Zhao <jsz...@yeah.net> wrote:
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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