On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:04 PM, A Singh <aditi.si...@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> I am trying to read in a file with 105 columns, and when trying to attach
> it, get an error as follows:
>
>> vc1<-read.table("P:\\R\\Everything-I.txt", header=T, sep=" ", dec=".",
>
> na.strings=NA, strip.white=T)
>>
>> attach(vc1)
>
> Error in attach(vc1) : variable names are limited to 256 bytes
>
> Is there a way to get around this, and make R accept the given variable
> names? Or will I have to shorten them?Don't use attach? Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.
