[R] read table

Sarah Goslee
Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:29:55 -0000

The default separator in read.table is white space, so the first
line (header) has 6 elements, the second line has 7 elements,
and the third has 8 elements.

Either delete the spaces in the car names, or use sep="\t"
(or whatever is appropriate).

?read.table explains this.

Sarah

On 6/5/07, 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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Sarah Goslee