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I have a commonly recurring problem and wondered if folks would share tips. I routinely get tab-delimited text files that I need to read in. In very many cases, I get: > a <- read.table('junk.txt.txt',header=T,skip=10,sep="\t") Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec = dec, : line 67 did not have 88 elements I am typically able to go