Help

 

I apologize if this message posts twice, but I do not think my last
attempt went through.

 

I am trying to use the read.table() function to read in a massive
alphanumeric data set.  I thought I might scan in each column
individually and do a cbind() to reconstitute the array in R, so that
maybe I could handle the numbers and the long lines of texts
separately(some columns in the Excel dataset are wrapped lines of texts,
some dates, some numbers).  However, I encountered a problem in that I
cannot seem to even read the column of texts properly.  Each line of
texts is fairly long and there are about 7000 lines.  When I try to read
the entire 7000 lines, either R will say over 50 warnings() and then
quite reading in the document or it will appear as though it
successfully read the data, but then when I look at the dimension of the
data, it is only 4000, and it will not print it to the screen.  When I
take a small chunk of the text, say 40 lines, it prints to the screen,
but much of the data is missing; usually only one true line of data
shows up and the rest are NA's.  I was just wondering if I am going
about reading this data set improperly?  Am I using the wrong function?
Thanks a million your help is much appreciated.

 

Best,

David

 



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