[R] Reading one column .csv file

Berend Hasselman bhh at xs4all.nl
Thu Aug 16 06:56:15 CEST 2012


On 16-08-2012, at 06:06, darnold wrote:

> Tried that already. 
> 
> My clipboard:
> 
> x
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 
> My attempt:
> 
>> a <- read.delim(pipe("pbpaste"))
> Warning message:
> In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :
>  incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'pbpaste'
> 
> And again:
> 
>> a <- read.delim(pipe("pbpaste"),header=TRUE)
> Warning message:
> In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :
>  incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'pbpaste'
> 
> Suggestions?
> 

It's a warning message not an error. It tells you that the final line does not end with a newline character. That's Excel's fault.
After a <- read.delim(....) just inspect a with 

a

It's probably ok.

Berend



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