On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:02:35PM +0000, Luis Ridao Cruz wrote: > DEPTH CTDPRS CTDTMP CTDSAL RAWFLU NUMB. QUAL > M DBAR IPTS-68 PSS-78 OBS. > ******* ******* ******* ******* > 1 1.0 2999 > 2 2.0 5.9793 35.1629 .107 17 2221 > 3 3.0 5.9797 35.1631 .101 17 2221 > 4 4.0 5.9809 35.1631 .118 12 2221 > 5 5.1 5.9811 35.1629 .115 42 2221 > 6 6.1 5.9810 35.1631 .116 18 2221 > 7 7.1 5.9797 35.1631 .116 15 2221 > 8 8.1 5.9798 35.1630 .102 13 2221 > 9 9.1 5.9792 35.1629 .113 11 2221
> read.table(file, skip = 10) To me it looks like your data is in a fixed-width format. If that is the case you should use read.fwf() instead of read.table(). cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Tel. +49-8161-71 2131 Dept. of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics Fax. +49-8161-71 2186 Technical University of Munich Science Center Weihenstephan 85350 Freising, Germany http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.