[R] read.table problem

[Philippe Grosjean]

Hello,
Well... the error message is explicit enough: "number of items read is 
not a multiple of the number of columns" means that you do not have the 
right number of items around line 11975 (not the same number as in the 
11974 previous lines)! This is an error in you file.
Best,

Philippe Grosjean

Andrej Kastrin wrote:
> Dear R useRs,
> 
> I have big (23000 rows), vertical bar delimited file:
> 
> e.g.
> A00001|Text a,Text b, Text c|345
> A00002|Text bla|456
> ...
> ..
> .
> 
> Try using
> 
> A <- read.table('filename.txt', header=FALSE,sep='\|')
>  
> process stop at line 11975 with warning message:
> number of items read is not a multiple of the number of columns
> 
> I have no problems with processing similar file, which is only 10000 
> rows long?
> 
> Any suggestion what's the problem here. Thank's in advance.
> 
> Cheers, Andrej
> 
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