[R] Importing with read.table

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

There _are_ three columns: | is the column _separator_.  So give three
column names and ignore/discard the third column.

Alternatively preprocess the file to remove the incorrect (according to
your description) second separator. On Unix piping though sed will do it,
and there are lots of other ways.

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Balint, Jess wrote:

> Hi all. I have something similar to the following:
>
> myinfo <- read.table( file = "myfile.txt", sep = "|", col.name = c( "data1",
> "data2" ) )
>
> myfile.txt:
> a|1|
> b|2|
>
> However, since there are two pipe (|) characters, it reads it in and thinks
> there should be three columns. This is not the case and I get a warning
> about col.names is wrong length. Is there a way around this? Thanks.


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