I usually found this problem to be connected to spaces in the column names. Or, a wrong "sep" argument (for example "," instead of "\t" and the like)
Let us know if it helped. Cheers, Tal ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Euphoria <yeshapate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all! I am desperately trying to figure out the solution to this error, > but > nothing as of yet is working. > > As noted in an earlier post I am using GenABEL. In an attempt to read in > the phenotype file, in the format .dat, R keeps giving me the error "more > columns than column names" > > I have tried to read in the data without the headers; I have also tried to > trim the data to remove any trailing tabs or spaces but it doesn't solve > the > problem. All missing values have been replaced with "NA", and all data > seems to have matching corresponding header value - each column has a > matching column name. > > What could be the possible underlying problem? I have tried to > problem-solve > but clearly I am at a loss. Thanks for your help! > > Code: > mix <- load.gwaa.data (phe = "Z:/CCFPhenotypesTAB.dat", gen = > "pedmap-0.raw", force = T) > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/R-error-more-columns-than-column-names-tp1568052p1568052.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[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.
