[R] Why a multi column, tab delimited file has only one column after reading in with read.table specification sep="\t"

[John Kane]

Are you sure that there are tabs?  

 try sep="" 
?read.table seems to say that this should work

Otherwise try read.delimited.  


--- Yong Wang <wangyong1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all:
> I have a tab delimited file as following
> 
> AGE WEIGHT    PROTEIN   ........
> 6	20	3	........
> 8	39	4	........
> 
> I tried to read it as following:
> 
>  data <- read.table(file,sep="\t",header=T);
> 
> but there is only column for the data after reading
> in,:
> 
> dim(data);
> [1] 200 1
> 
> the column name is
> "AGE...WEIGHT...........PROTEIN...."
> 
> 
> Any quick suggestion will be appreciated.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
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