[R] Problem with read.table()

[Joan-Josep Vallbé]

Hi, I've tried it with read.delim:

ayuso <- read.delim("/Users/user/Rwork/ayusotriada.txt")

and now the error message is "Error with make.names(col.names, unique  
= TRUE) :
   string multibyte 187 invalid"

thanks!



On 02/10/2008, at 12:21, Joan-Josep Vallbé wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm a new user and I'm trying to use read.table with a tab delimited
> file but the system tells me (i) that there are more columns than
> column names, and (ii) that headers and col.names are of different
> lengths. I have already checked my variable names and there's no blank
> spaces. However, some variables have quite long names such as
> "valoracion.experiencias.segundo.year". Could it be the problem? If
> that is the case, I still don't understand why I have more columns
> that column names. Could anyone help me with that?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
>
> Joan-Josep Vallbé
> Institute of Law and Technology
> Political Science Department
> Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
> pep.vallbe at uab.es
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Joan-Josep Vallbé
Institute of Law and Technology
Political Science Department
Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
pep.vallbe at uab.es