Please give reproducible example, more information on your troubleshooting and sessionInfo(). Cannot reproduce:
> pathname <- "empty.txt" > cat(file=pathname) > print(file.info(pathname)) size isdir mode mtime ctime empty.txt 0 FALSE 666 2010-01-01 12:50:55 2010-01-01 12:45:34 atime exe empty.txt 2010-01-01 12:45:34 no > read.table(pathname) Error in read.table(pathname) : no lines available in input > sessionInfo() R version 2.10.1 Patched (2009-12-24 r50837) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base /Henrik On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > read.table terminates the program if the input file is empty. Is there > way to let the program continue and return me a NULL instead of > terminating the program? > > $ Rscript read_empty.R >> read.table("empty_data.txt") > Error in read.table("empty_data.txt") : no lines available in input > Execution halted > $ cat read_empty.R > read.table("empty_data.txt") > $ cat empty_data.txt; echo EOF > EOF > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.