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...excel or something like this. My question is: is there any simple way to make read.table robust to deal with this problem? I would like to avoid solutions such as re-implement using scan or asking the user to deal with this for me, changing himself the file. Thanks in advance Leonardo K. Shikida Vetta Labs +55(31)2551-6936 ext 203 http://www.vettalabs.com