In order to get around the problems of my posting a few minutes ago, I
thought:
$ awk -F\| '(NR > 2) {print $2}' cmie_firm_data.text > col2
$ awk -F\| '(NR > 2) {print $4}' cmie_firm_data.text > col4
$ paste col2 col4 | head -2
-510.45 -510.27
60700 101900
$ paste col2 col4 | tail -2
28648.12 31617.02
491014.77 494308.52
$ wc -l col2 col4
89323 col2
89323 col4
178646 total
So all is well.
But R doesn't like it:
$ R --vanilla < picture.R
R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Version 1.9.1 (2004-06-21), ISBN 3-900051-00-3
> col2 <- read.table(file="col2")
> col4 <- read.table(file="col4")
> print(nrow(col2))
[1] 89323
> print(nrow(col4))
[1] 88746
Why might I be getting 89,323 and 88,746 obs for two files which `wc'
believes are each 89,323 lines long?
I checked, and there is no single quote or C-m in either file.
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Ajay Shah Consultant
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