[Rd] read.table error upon package installation (PR#8230)
Robert.McGehee@geodecapital.com
Robert.McGehee at geodecapital.com
Fri Oct 21 00:58:20 CEST 2005
Upon upgrading to R 2.2.0 on my Windows box, I found that one of my
packages no longer compiled, giving this error:
Error in read.table(zfile, header =3D TRUE) :
more columns than column names
Execution halted
After removing every line of code from my package and still not being
able to compile it, I found the error to be related to a .txt file in my
data directory. I reduced my data file to a very simple example which
causes the error, and a nearly identical file which does not cause the
problem.
A file with these contents causes the error (I am using \t to indicate
the usual tab delimiter).
x \t y
A B C \t DEF
However, if I remove one of the spaces between A and B or B and C, the
package compiles fine:
x \t y
A BC \t DEF
I can only guess that there is some kind of parsing problem when there
is more than one space between tab delimiters.
Robert
> version
_ =20
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch i386 =20
os mingw32 =20
system i386, mingw32 =20
status =20
major 2 =20
minor 2.0 =20
year 2005 =20
month 10 =20
day 06 =20
svn rev 35749 =20
language R =20
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