Re: [R] A very frustrating read.table error message

2009-06-06 Thread hadley wickham
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Adam D. I. Kramera...@ilovebacon.org wrote: Dear Colleagues,        Occasionally I deal with computer-generated (i.e., websurvey) data files that haven't quite worked correctly. When I try to read the data into R, I get something like this: Error in

Re: [R] A very frustrating read.table error message

2009-06-06 Thread Jonathan Baron
On 06/06/09 15:02, Adam D. I. Kramer wrote: Dear Colleagues, Occasionally I deal with computer-generated (i.e., websurvey) data files that haven't quite worked correctly. When I try to read the data into R, I get something like this: Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote,