On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Changbin Du <changb...@gmail.com> wrote: > HI, Dear R community, > > My original file has 1932 lines, but when I read into R, it changed to 1068 > lines, how comes? > > > c...@nuuk:~/operon$ wc -l id_name_gh5.txt > 1932 id_name_gh5.txt > > >> gene_name<-read.table("/home/cdu/operon/id_name_gh5.txt", sep="\t", > skip=0, header=F, fill=T) >> dim(gene_name) > [1] 1068 3 > >
Do any of your lines start with a "#"? > read.table("test.txt",sep="\t") V1 1 line 1 2 line 2 3 line 3 4 line 4 > read.table("test.txt",comment.char="",sep="\t") V1 1 line 1 2 #commented 3 line 2 4 line 3 5 #nother comment 6 line 4 just a guess. hard to tell without the file... Barry ______________________________________________ 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.