Hi Mir, Without knowing what the data looks like, this is only a guess. read.table() expects a white space delimiter and if you have a space in one of your column names it will consider it as two names instead of one. How many columns do you expect?
Jim On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 6:14 PM Mohammad Tanvir Ahamed via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > > Hi, In your data file, the first row does not have an equal number of column > like the rest of the row.Check your data file. Specially 1st row. > Regards.............Tanvir Ahamed Stockholm, Sweden | > mashra...@yahoo.com > > On Monday, 5 October 2020, 08:11:48 am GMT+2, Mir Md. Abdus Salam > <mir.sa...@uef.fi> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I need urgent help. I am a new user of R. I got the following error > > anovamine<-read.table("spike cu.txt",header=TRUE) > > Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : > line 1 did not have 9 elements > > Can anybody please help me to solve this problem why I am getting such kind > of error? > > Thanks > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.