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[Jeff Newmiller]

Your file has 5 commas in the first data row, but only 4 in the header. R 
interprets this to mean your first column is intended to be row names (has 
no corresponding column label) rather than data. (Row names are "outside" 
the data frame... use str(dsh) to get a better picture.)

Basically, your file does not conform to consistent practices for csv 
files of having the same number of commas in every row. If at all possible 
I would eliminate the extra comma. If you have many of these broken files, 
you might need to read the data in pieces... e.g.

dsh <- read.csv( "dat.csv", header=FALSE, skip=1 )
dsh <- dsh[ , -length( dsh ) ]
dshh <- read.csv( "dat.csv", header=TRUE, nrow=1)
names( dsh ) <- names( dshh )

On Fri, 9 Nov 2018, Val wrote:

> HI all,
> I am trying to read a csv file, but  have a problem in the row names.
> After reading, the name of the first column is now "row.names" and
> all other column names are shifted to the right. The value of the last
> column become all NAs( as an extra column).
>
> My sample data looks like as follow,
> filename = dat.csv
> The first row has a missing value at column 3 and 5. The last row has
> a missing value at column 1 and  5
> x1,x2,x3,x4,x5
> 12,13,,14,,
> 22,23,24,25,26
> ,33,34,34,
> To read the file I used this
>
> dsh<-read.csv(file="dat.csv",sep=",",row.names=NULL,fill=TRUE,header=TRUE,comment.char
> = "", quote = "", stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
>
> The output  from the above  is
> dsh
>
> row.names x1 x2 x3 x4 x5
> 1        12 13 NA 14 NA  NA
> 2        22 23 24 25 26  NA
> 3             33 34 34 NA  NA
>
> The name of teh frist column is row,banes and all values of last columns is NAs
>
>
> However, the desired output should be
> x1 x2 x3 x4 x5
> 12 13 NA 14 NA
> 22 23 24 25 26
> NA 33 34 34 NA
>
>
> How can I fix this?
> Thank you in advance
>
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