[R] read table

John Kane
Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:44:35 -0000

R considers Mazda RX4 Wag to be three columns.  There
fore you have 6 columns of data and only 6 names.

Use " "   like this
"Mazda RX4"  and Mazda Rx4 Wag" to indicate each is a
single character value.


--- jiqiang yao <jiqiang123 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm a novice of R.
>
> I want to read the following table into R:
> names               mpg    cyl  disp  hp  drat
> Mazda RX4           21.0   6    160.0 110 3.90
> Mazda RX4 Wag       21.0   6    160.0 110 3.90
>
> The command I used is:
> > test <- read.table(file.choose(),header=T)
>
> The result is:
> Error in read.table(file.choose(), header = T) :
>         more columns than column names
>
> Can anybody tells me what is wrong?
>
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