[R] Errors in reading in txt files

[Berend Hasselman]

> On 14 Dec 2017, at 19:36, lily li <chocold12 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi R users,
> 
> I have a question about reading from text files. The file has the structure
> below:
> 
> Time                            Column1   Column2
> 01.01.2001-12:00:00

This line does not contain 3 elements; only one.
You'll have to fix that line. Delete it, prepend it with a comment character of add enough columns.


Berend

> 01.01.2001-24:00:00        12             11
> 01.02.2001-12:00:00        13             10
> 01.02.2001-24:00:00        11             12
> 01.03.2001-12:00:00        15             11
> 01.03.2001-24:00:00        16             10
> ...
> 
> I just use the simple script to open it: df = read.table('DATAM', head=T).
> 
> But it has the error and thus cannot read the file:
> Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec =
> dec,  :
>  line 1 did not have 3 elements
> 
> How to read it with three fixed columns, and how to read the time format in
> the first column correctly? Thanks for your help.
> 
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