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...e which I'm trying to read into R. This file is of column format - there are in fact 3 columns and 259201 rows (including the column headers). I've been using the following commands, but receive an error each time which prevents the data from being read in: > Jan <- read.table("JanuaryAvBurntArea.txt", header=TRUE) Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : line 1 did not have 6 elements I tried removing the 'header' argument, but receive a similar message: > Jan <- read.table("JanuaryAvBurntArea.txt") Error in scan(file,...