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2013 Jan 24
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How to get read.table() or scan() to report line on which error occurs
...uestion, but I have search the FAQs and lists
and web for an answer but not found one.
I have a text file of several hundred thousand rows and somewhere in the middle
there is a malformed row.
Doing:
   mydata<-read.table("mydata.dat", header=FALSE, sep=" ",
     col.names=mydatacolnames, colClasses=mydatacolclasses, row.names="hash")
results in:
   Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  :
     scan() expected 'a real', got 'MONOCHROME2'
   Calls: read.table -> scan
   Execution halted
which is not very helpful, s...