R help - Apr 2009 - Unable to re-import a table that was just exported to a file

Hi all,

I am saving a program's output to a file to be read by another algorithm.
But somehow such a simple operation (the reading) fails. I get:

Error in read.table("a_corr_data.txt", sep = ",", col.names
= T, row.names F) :
  more columns than column names


Here is the write statement:


write.table(a_corr_data,"a_corr_data.txt",sep=",",col.names=T,row.names=F)

Here is the read statement:

a_corr_data <- 
read.table("a_corr_data.txt",sep=",",col.names=T,row.names=F)

Nothing happens in-between (these actions are just 10-30 secs apart). I
tried to export/import without col.names, also tried different deliminators
("/t") but the same error pops up again and again. I am already quite
unhappy with this.

thanks,

N.

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Take a look at the output file.  You may need 'header=TRUE' on the
read.table.

It would be good to at least supply the first couple of lines of the
file that you are trying to read.  The error message is self
explanitory: you have more columns than there are names on the first
line.

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Nigel Birney <nan23 at cam.ac.uk>
wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am saving a program's output to a file to be read by another
algorithm.
> But somehow such a simple operation (the reading) fails. I get:
>
> Error in read.table("a_corr_data.txt", sep = ",",
col.names = T, row.names > F) :
> ?more columns than column names
>
>
> Here is the write statement:
>
>
>
write.table(a_corr_data,"a_corr_data.txt",sep=",",col.names=T,row.names=F)
>
> Here is the read statement:
>
> a_corr_data <-
>
read.table("a_corr_data.txt",sep=",",col.names=T,row.names=F)
>
> Nothing happens in-between (these actions are just 10-30 secs apart). I
> tried to export/import without col.names, also tried different deliminators
> ("/t") but the same error pops up again and again. I am already
quite
> unhappy with this.
>
> thanks,
>
> N.
>
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