[R] Problem with read.table()

[Joan-Josep Vallbé]

Sorry, I didn't, and removing the first row it effectively works.  
Thank you very much for your help.

On 02/10/2008, at 15:20, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

> Did you try skipping the header as one respondent mentioned?
> read.table(..., skip = 1, header = FALSE)
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Joan-Josep Vallbé  
> <Pep.Vallbe at uab.cat> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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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