You have to tell R what the column delimiter is. See Read.table.
On Apr 2, 2013 8:28 AM, "Shane Carey" <careyshan@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im reading in a .txt file into R that consists of 5 columns, however, when
> imported into R, it reads all the data into just one column. Is there a way
> of telling R to create a dataframe with 5 columns rather than putting all
> the data into one column?
>
> Thanks
>
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> Shane
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