[R] Reading in a table with unequal columns

[Mike Jones]

Hi, 

Wasn't sure how to explain this problem succinctly in a title.  I am
trying to read in a text file that looks like:

0   1000  175  1  2  3
1   1000  58   0  2  9
2   1000  35   0  1  3 10
3   1000  300  0  2  4  5  10  11  18
4   1000  150  3  5  6
5   1000  100 3  4  6  7  18
6   1000   50  4  5  7  8
7   1000  155  5  6  8  19
8   1000  255  6  7 19
9   1000  200  1 10 12
10  1000  52   2  3  9  11  12  13
11  1000  70  3  10 14 15  16  17  18  19
12  1000  250 9  10 13
13  1000  40 10 12 14
14  1000  235 11 13 15
15  1000  127 11 14 16 17
16  1000  177 11 15 17
17  1000  358 11 15 16
18  1000  296 3  5  11  19
19  1000  120 7  8  11  18

The problem with this is that the 12th row (row with 11 in the first
column) doesn't get read in correctly.  To read into R, I'm using a
command like:

matrix(unlist(read.table(datafile, sep="",fill=T)),
             ncol=max(count.fields(datafile, sep="")),byrow=F)

but that gives

      [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10] [,11]
 [1,]    0   19 1000  358   11   14   15   NA   NA    NA    18
 [2,]    1 1000 1000  296   11   15   16   NA   NA    NA    NA
 [3,]    2 1000  175  120    3   15   17   17   NA    NA    NA
 [4,]    3 1000   58    1    7    5   16   NA   NA    NA    NA
 [5,]    4 1000   35    0    2    8   11   NA   NA    NA    NA
 [6,]    5 1000  300    0    2    3   11   19   NA    NA    NA
 [7,]    6 1000  150    0    1    9   NA   18   NA    NA    NA
 [8,]    7 1000  100    3    2    3   NA   NA   NA    NA    NA
 [9,]    8 1000   50    3    5    4   10   NA   NA    NA    NA
[10,]    9 1000  155    4    4    6    5   NA   NA    NA    NA
[11,]   10 1000  255    5    5    6   NA   10   NA    NA     0
[12,]   11 1000  200    6    6    7    7   NA   11    NA     1
[13,]   19 1000   52    1    7    8    8   18   NA    18     2
[14,]   12   NA   70    2   10   19   19   NA   NA    NA     3
[15,]   13 1000   NA    3    3   12   NA   NA   NA    NA     4
[16,]   14 1000  250   NA   10    9   NA   NA   NA    NA     5
[17,]   15 1000   40    9   NA   14   11   NA   NA    NA     6
[18,]   16 1000  235   10   10   NA   15   12   NA    NA     7
[19,]   17 1000  127   11   12   13   NA   16   13    NA     8
[20,]   18 1000  177   11   13   14   NA   NA   17    NA     9

I've tried other things, but this is as close as I've been able to get
and I'm at a loss at this point.  Any input would be
helpful...thanks...mj