This is a strange result. I couldn't have a similar result, even with your exact call to read.table. Maybe there is a problem with the file (possibly some white space characters not cleaned).
If you send the first 5 lines of your text file I could say something more. On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 09:05, Vincent MUTEAUD wrote: > Hello R-users, > I apologize for my question but I'm a newbie. I want to read a file which > columns separator is "\t". At the end of each row there is a "\n" to go to > the following line. The three first lines are remarks lines and the fourth > contains columns titles ( variables names, ids, dates, calculated values, > observed values...) . I do: > read.table("myFile", header=TRUE, sep = "\t", skip = 3) > > I obtain a strange result, lines are in a bad order: > > cell6/voxel15 1998/365a 2.0 1.0 0.55 > 0.27480000257492065 0\nRendement de la > culture 0.0 crop4 0/0a 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 > 0\nRendement de la > culture 0.0 crop4 1998/75a 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 > 0\nRendement de la > culture 0.0 crop4 1998/150a 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 > 0\nRendement de la > culture 0.0 crop4 1998/225a 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 > 0\nRendement de la > culture 0.0 crop4 1998/300a 0.0 1.0 0.0 > 3.0368848 0\nRayonnement diffu > reçu 0.0 crop1 0/0a 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 > 0\nRayonnement diffu > reçu 0.0 crop1 1998/50a 0.0 2.0 0.0 > 6.8406434 0\nRayonnement diffu > reçu 0.0 crop1 1998/100a 0.0 2.0 0.0 > 14.235084 0\nRayonnement diffu > reçu 0.0 crop1 1998/150a 0.0 2.0 0.0 14.15452 > 0\nRayonnement diffu > reçu 0.0 crop1 1998/200a 0.0 2.0 0.0 > 13.691006 0\nRayonnement diffu > reçu 0.0 crop1 1998/250a 0.0 2.0 0.0 > 10.997387 0\nRayonnement diffu > reçu 0.0 crop1 1998/300a 0.0 2.0 0.0 > 10.333394 0\nRayonnement diffu > reçu 0.0 crop1 1998/350a 0.0 2.0 0.0 4.198115 > 0\nRayonnement diffu > reçu 0.0 crop9 0/0a 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 > 0\nRayonnement diffu > reçu 0.0 crop9 1998/50a 2.0 0.0 0.0 > 6.8406434 0\nRayonnement diffu > reçu 0.0 crop9 1998/100a 2.0 0.0 0.0 > 14.235084 0\nRayonnement diffu > reçu 0.0 crop9 1998/150a 2.0 0.0 0.0 14.15452 > 0\nRayonnement diffu > reçu 0.0 crop9 1998/200a 2.0 0.0 0.0 > 13.676454 0\nRayonnement diffu > reçu 0.0 crop9 1998/250a 2.0 0.0 0.0 > 10.983188 0\nRayonnement diffu > reçu 0.0 crop9 1998/300a 2.0 0.0 0.0 > 10.333394 0\nRayonnement diffu > reçu 0.0 crop9 1998/350a 2.0 0.0 0.0 4.198115 > 0\n > weighting id date x y z calculated observed > 1 0 tree1 1998/365a 1.5 1.5 0.00 1.580000e+02 162.000 > 2 0 tree1 0/0a 1.5 1.5 0.00 6.242254e-03 0.007 > 3 0 tree1 1998/365a 1.5 1.5 0.00 1.038187e-02 0.011 > 4 0 tree1 1998/365a 1.5 1.5 0.00 1.008111e+00 0.000 > 5 0 cell4/voxel23 1998/365a 0.0 1.0 0.55 0.000000e+00 0.000 > 6 0 cell5/voxel18 1998/365a 1.0 1.0 0.25 0.000000e+00 0.000 > 7 0 cell5/voxel20 1998/365a 1.0 1.0 0.90 0.000000e+00 0.000 > 8 0 cell6/voxel15 1998/365a 2.0 1.0 0.55 0.000000e+00 0.000 > 9 NA NA NA NA NA NA > > The "\n" is read like a word and not like a symbol to skip a line. > What should I do? > > Thanks > > ______________________________________________ > [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 ______________________________________________ [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