[R] data error problem

[Jim Lemon]

Hi Mir,
Without knowing what the data looks like, this is only a guess.
read.table() expects a white space delimiter and if you have a space
in one of your column names it will consider it as two names instead
of one. How many columns do you expect?

Jim

On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 6:14 PM Mohammad Tanvir Ahamed via R-help
<r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
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> Hi, In your data file, the first row does not have an equal number of column like the rest of the row.Check your data file. Specially 1st row.
> Regards.............Tanvir Ahamed    Stockholm, Sweden     |  mashranga using yahoo.com
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>     On Monday, 5 October 2020, 08:11:48 am GMT+2, Mir Md. Abdus Salam <mir.salam using uef.fi> wrote:
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>  Dear all,
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> I need urgent help. I am a new user of R. I got the following error
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> anovamine<-read.table("spike cu.txt",header=TRUE)
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> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  :
> line 1 did not have 9 elements
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> Can anybody please help me to solve this problem why I am getting such kind of error?
>
> Thanks
>
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