[R] problems importing file

Duncan Murdoch
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:04:39 -0000

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