[R] read.table and missing values - solved

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Peter Breuer wrote:

> Thanks - everything is o.k. and working

[...]

> >You have set sep="\t", haven't you?  The default separator is white space,
> >and that will swallow two tabs.  The following had tabs in originally,
>
> This did solve the problem. I didn't set sep="\t". R read complete
> tab delimited data files nontheless and complained only when it met
> missing data.
> This confused me.

Using read.delim (same help page) might be less confusing, although I
think fill = TRUE might also cause confusion.

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