Thanks everyone! The problem was definitely with the apostrophe being interpreted as a single quote.
Jonathan On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:49 AM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Most likely an unbalanced quote. put the following option in the > read.table: > > quote='', comment.char='' > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Jonathan <jonsle...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello again, >> I am simply trying to import a rectangular table of strings. The >> table's dimensions are 1990 x 2, yet my read.table() command can only find >> 362 of the rows (and they're not the first 362). I would've taken the >> time >> to figure out how to use scan, readLines, or some other tool that can read >> in character strings, and then parse and input to a table, but that seems >> like overkill, and probably it would be good to understand what's wrong >> with >> my text file. >> >> The file is here. >> >> https://regtransfers-sth-se.diino.com/download/jonsleepy/_mydropbox_/finalInput.xls >> >> The code is here: >> temp <- as.matrix(read.table('finalInput.xls', header=FALSE, sep = "\t")) >> dim(temp) #expect 1990 x 2; but find 362 x 2 >> >> Sorry to require a download (this probably won't make people happy), but >> since my problem is file-specific, the file is needed for troubleshooting. >> >> I generated it with some grep, gawk commands using Cygwin in a Windows >> environment (though subsequently converted it to Windows format - R loads >> it >> exactly the same way, regardless of whether it's in linux or windows >> format) >> >> Regards, >> Jonathan >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Cincinnati, OH > +1 513 646 9390 > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
