[R] strange read.table results

[Sarah Goslee]

My guess is that there's something wrong with your file. You really don't
give us enough information to diagnose the problem, though. An encoding
issue? If you open the file in a plain text editor, what happens? What OS
are you using? Version of R?

When I copy your sample data from the email into a text file, deleting the
blank lines, it opens as expected using read.table() with no additiona
arguments.

Sarah

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Daniel Alcock <da2 at sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi I hope someone can shed some light on this:
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> For some reason when I
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> read.table("bfx.txt")
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> R decides to only give back the first character from each column in each row as one single column.
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> Like this:
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>    V1
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> 1   яюr
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> 2    \n
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> 3     r
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> 4     1
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> 5     0
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> 6     A
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> 7     G
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> 8    \n
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> 9     r
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> 10    1
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> 11    0
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> 12    T
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> 13    C
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> 14   \n
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> The data should be:
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> rs153410928 153410928 0.98802328 A G
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> rs153411383 153411383 0.988026211 G A
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> rs153411809 153411809 0.988028954 A G
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> rs153411854 153411854 0.988029244 A G
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> rs153413052 153413052 0.988036959 T C
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> so not only is it screwing the data it's also missing the first 3 lines. Is this something I've done? I've tried dos2unix to make sure the files are ok, added colClasses="character", sep=" " etc but with no success.
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> I'm just about at the end of my tether right now so any help will be gratefully received!
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> Dan
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