On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any ideas why read.table complains about not correct number of elements in > line > while readLine/strsplit indicate that all lines have the same number of > elements ?
That is what count.fields is for. Setting fill=TRUE in read.table can help detection, too. One guess is that you have a comment character on that line, but one thing you did not show us is the appropriate lines of the file. > > tbl <- read.table('tmp', header = T, sep = '\t') > Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec = > dec, : > line 32 did not have 27 elements > > lines <- readLines('tmp') > > v <- 1:length(lines) > > i <- 0; for (line in lines) { i <- i + 1; v[i] <- length(strsplit(line, > '\t')[[1]]) } > > v > [1] 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 > 27 27 > [26] 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 > 27 27 > [51] 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 > > sum((v - v[1])^2) > [1] 0 > > length(strsplit(lines[32], '\t')[[1]]) > [1] 27 > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html