[R] Read data with different column lengths

Dear r-help users, I have the following simple problem: Reading data from a file. The file is a .txt file exported (save as...) from Excel (see below for an example). The Excel file consists of two header rows (first row consists of ticker symbols of stocks, the second row consists of

Re: [R] Read data with different column lengths

I would have thought that a csv file written out by Excel would have looked like this for your data: ADS GY Equity, ,ALV GY Equity, Date, Px Last,Date , Px Last 07/02/04, 41,395 ,07/01/31 , 130,234 07/02/05, 42,134