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...roperly ask. Here is is my question and a small subset of the data and output. I have a data set with many blanks. The blanks should be replaced with zero once imported. I tried read.table, read.csv (R 2.8 version),or scan, but none was successful. Any suggestion, please.. thanks. Keun-Hyung >garoben=read.table("c:\\Rdata\\garoben.txt",header=T, fill=0, as.is=TRUE) >error: scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : 11 missing components ## the data look like this Am.auricula Am.arctica Am.gunneri An.koreana Ar.iricolor Ar.lanceolata 4...