Try specifying quote=NULL as an argument to read.table. It could be that
one of your fields has a quote symbol in it.
-Original Message-
From: Ajay Shah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 05 July 2004 11:15
To: r-help
Subject: [R] Failing on reading a "slightly big" dataset
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You are asking read.table to interpret both quote and comment characters
in your file. You do seem to have quotes -- are they always matched?
Please read through the Data Import/Export manual and check out all the
options.
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Ajay Shah wrote:
> I have a file with 4 columns per
I have a file with 4 columns per line, all pipe delimited.
$ wc -l cmie_firm_data.text
89325 cmie_firm_data.text
$ ls -al cmie_firm_data.text
-rw-r--r--1 ajayshah ajayshah 4415637 Jul 5 15:25 cmie_firm_data.text
$ awk -F\| '(NF != 4)' cmie_firm_data.text
$ head cmie_firm_data.text
All fi
