[R] stripping #s in a text file prior to reading into table or dataframe

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 27/10/2010 9:51 AM, Donald Braman wrote:
> Thanks for your advice!  I still get the same error, though -- not sure
> why.
>
>
> >  read.table('don.5.clusters.txt', header = TRUE, comment.char = '', quote
> ='')
>
> Error in read.table("don.5.clusters.txt", header = TRUE, comment.char = "",
>   :
>
>    more columns than column names
>
>
> Any other thoughts?

You should post a few lines of your file, or a similarly structured one 
that leads to the same error if the data is confidential.

Duncan Murdoch