[R] read.table problem with column headers

[Tom Arnold]

Yes, thank you. - Fixed now.

This is what happens when you try to manually label
data files rather than having the proper data export
(with labels) in the first place.

-Tom

--- ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Tom Arnold wrote:
> 
> > When I use read.table I can't get my column names
> to
> > line up with my data.
> >
> > The data file has survey response data, and each
> line
> > starts with a unique key field (which should be
> the
> > row name when it gets read in, right? I've only
> been
> > using R for one day so bear with me)
> >
> > The first row in the file has column names, and
> the
> > first name is "Key", followed by "Age" and so on.
> for
> > example:
> >
> > Key;Age;Gender;Years In IT; #more column labels...
> > 20020220_144752_15178;41;0;17; #more data...
> >
> > When I read this in, saying
> > survey = read.table("myfile.dat",TRUE,";")
> >
> > I wind up with "Age" column being named "Key" and
> all
> > the column labels shift to the right. No matter
> what
> > I've tried, I can't put *my* header on the first
> > column of row names. If it put no header on that
> > column, I get an error "more columns than column
> > names"
> >
> > What can I do to get my data labels on correctly?
> 
> > read.table("myfile.dat",TRUE,";")
>                     Key Age Gender Years.In.IT
> 1 20020220_144752_15178  41      0          17
> 
> is what I get from your code.  I suspect you wanted
> 
> > read.table("myfile.dat",TRUE,";", row.names=1)
>                       Age Gender Years.In.IT
> 20020220_144752_15178  41      0          17
> 
> Do you perchance have the wrong number of names in
> your first line,
> say one too few?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                 
> ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics, 
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