[R] Problem reading large tables

[Daniel Sumers Myers]

Thanks to all, it was a conversion problem (now fixed).

Daniel

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:43:22PM -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:03:47 -0500, Daniel Sumers Myers
> <dmyers at umiacs.umd.edu> wrote :
> 
> >Hi, 
> >	I'm trying to read in a fairly large (92 observations by 3680 variables)
> >table into R from a space-delimited text file (attached) using the command: d8
> ><- read.table('d8.r', header=T). The function call runs to completion, and I
> >get back a valid table object. However, starting at column 999, the table
> >records the value TRUE when it should record T (T's in columns 998 and earlier
> >are fine). I've looked at the data file, and I can see no difference between
> >(e.g.) the T at position 998 in row 1 and the T in position 999 in row 1, yet
> >998 is recorded as T and 999 as TRUE. 
> 
> The special-looking value 999 is probably just a coincidence.  Likely
> what happened is that column 999 was the first column that looked to
> the type.convert function like   a purely logical column (because all
> values are T there?).  You can tell R not to automatically convert
> values by using the colClasses argument to read.table, e.g. colClasses
> = "character" forces everything to stay as a character.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> P.S. You can't send attachments to the mailing list, so I didn't see
> your data file.

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