[R] read.table

[Jim Lemon]

Georg Ehret wrote:
> Dear R community,   I encounter a problem reading data into a dataframe. See
> attachment for the input. I use:
> data<-read.table("test",fill=T,row.names=1)
> 
> When you look at "data" you can see that some lines of my input were
> broken... I can avoid this problem by sorting the lines by length... Do I
> have it wrong or is there a bug?
> 
Hi George,
I'm making a total guess here, but you may be trying to read a data file 
in which the lines have been "wrapped" by an editor or other program. 
Pretty much all of the data reading functions read line by line, and if 
lines are broken, especially unevenly, at best you get scrambled data in 
your target data object.

Jim