[R] Anyone See a Problem with my Header/Data?

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Fri Dec 9 20:12:16 CET 2011


On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Lost in R wrote:

> First time using R. Having problems importing my data. Can anyone  
> take a look
> at my data to see if there is something stupid that I'm doing? This  
> is the
> error that I'm getting.
>
> <- read.table("C:\\CM3_DATASET.out.txt",
> + sep="\t",header=TRUE)
> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines,  
> na.strings,
> :
>  line 1 did not have 194 elements
>>

http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows&s=excel

(You offer a link to an .xlsx file but you are attempting to read  
a .txt file?)


>
> Thanks in Advance....
>
> lost http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4177606/Data_Sample.xlsx
> Data_Sample.xlsx
>
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David Winsemius, MD
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