In the future you can examine the consequence kid various choices for parameters with something along the lines of
table( count.fields( file= .. , ... <parameters>)) Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 22, 2016, at 9:13 PM, Jinsong Zhao <jsz...@yeah.net> wrote: > >> 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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.