I have txt file and use the following command to read it to R: z <- read.table("c:/temp/test.txt") and I type z but the output is totally a mess; the test.txt is strutured with the first line as the variable names and when use excel to open it, all the vaules are well positioned. why in R it is totally in a mess? Linda
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