[R] read.table

[Peter Dalgaard]

Berton Gunter <gunter.berton at gene.com> writes:

> ?readLines
> 
> I'm sure Perl will do nicely, but you can also use readLines and grep() or
> regexpr() the result in R as you would in Perl to find where the problem
> lies. ?nchar can also help to find a non-printing character that may be
> messing you up. It's no fun, I know. Excel files can be a particular pain,
> especially in their handling of missings.

You might also try read.delim() which has options set specifically to
be able to read Excel-generated CSV files.

Also check out count.fields().

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