R help - Mar 2009 - problems importing file

hi ladies and gentlemen of the R community.

i'm federico an italian student of statistics and i've got an issue to
submit to you:

i've got a huge file.txt replenished of blank values (over a milion of
them).

by importing it into R the read.table() function higlights missing objects per
row and declares an error.

there's any way i can detail into the read.table() function to assign to the
blank fields a logical NA, so that importing can be concluded succesfully?

thanks for any suggestion, i hope i was clear in explaining myself.

On 29/03/2009 8:53 AM, Giacomo Prodi wrote:
> hi ladies and gentlemen of the R community.
> 
> i'm federico an italian student of statistics and i've got an issue
to submit to you:
> 
> i've got a huge file.txt replenished of blank values (over a milion of
them).
> 
> by importing it into R the read.table() function higlights missing objects
per row and declares an error.
> 
> there's any way i can detail into the read.table() function to assign
to the blank fields a logical NA, so that importing can be concluded
succesfully?
> 
> thanks for any suggestion, i hope i was clear in explaining myself.
The way to handle blank entries depends on the details.  Could you post 
some lines out of your file, e.g. one complete line, and one with some 
missing values?

Duncan Murdoch