
I recently attempted to read  a .txt file using both   read.table(" ",header=TRUE)    and    read.delim(" ",header=TRUE)    and received the following message

Error in edit.data.frame(get(subx, envir = parent), ...) :
        symbol print-name too long

I am able to also create a variable     x<-read.delim (" ",header=TRUE ) ,     but am unable to fix(x) because of the same errror

Error in edit.data.frame(get(subx, envir = parent), ...) :
        symbol print-name too long


I have read nearly identical files many times without problems - indeed, a subsequent, slightly different query of very similar data, formatted in same operation, did not give this error when read by R.

I suspect the error is the result of some overly long string somewhere, in a column header, since I do not encounter the error, when changing the command to header=FALSE.  However, I need the variable names, and I if there are restrictions on the length of these names, then I will need to know them so that they are made parameters for data entry in the original data source.

Do I just have to live with this or is there a fix of some kind?  
Jeffrey Lins




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