[R] additional error on read.table function

[Gabor Grothendieck]

You can use the skip= argument to skip over the indicated
number of lines of junk at the beginning of your file.  See
?read.table

On 1/29/06, oliver wee <islandboy1982 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> thanks to the feedback of some people I was able to
> solve my problem of reading data using the read.table
> function by using the file.choose function inside the
> method of the read.table function.
>
> Unfortunately, I encountered a new error message after
> I chose my file.
> After I unputted
> data = read.table(file.choose(), header = TRUE)
>
> I got an error saying:
>
> Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep,
> quote = quote, dec = dec,  :
>        line 1 did not have 11 elements
> In addition: Warning message:
> incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on
> 'D:\Oliver\Professional\Studies\Time Series
> Analysis\spdc2693.data.txt'
>
> my time series data looks like this...
>
> ------------
> Standard and Poor's 500 Index closing values from 1926
> to 1993.
>
>  Date       Index
>  260101     12.76
>  260108     12.78
>  260115     12.52
>  260122     12.45
>  260129     12.74
>  260205     12.87
>  260212     12.87
>  260219     12.74
>  260226     12.18
>  260305     11.99
>  260312     12.15
>  260319     11.64
>  260326     11.46
> ...
> (and so on)
> ----------
>
> Should I insert additional attributes besides header =
> TRUE?
>
> thanks.
>
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