[R] Problem with read.table()

[Joan-Josep Vallbé]

Hi, I've done ?count.fields and it helped me identify a blank space  
that I had not noticed (thanks!), but when I try to upload the table  
again with

ayuso <- read.table("/Users/user/Rwork/ayusotriada.txt", header=TRUE,  
sep="\t", na.strings="NA", dec=".", strip.white=TRUE)

or with read.delim, the error message "Error with  
make.names(col.names, unique =
>
>> TRUE) :
>> string multibyte 187 invalid

still appears. thanks!



On 02/10/2008, at 14:30, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

> 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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Joan-Josep Vallbé
Institute of Law and Technology
Political Science Department
Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
pep.vallbe at uab.es