[R] Problem with read.table()

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Look at ?count.fields to diagnose this.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Joan-Josep Vallbé <pep.vallbe at uab.cat> wrote:
> 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
>
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