Dear Paul,

Perhaps

read.delim2()

can do the job easily.

HTH,

Jorge

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Paul Adams <pma3622@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello to everyone,
> I have gotten my file to print to screen but when I use read.table I am
> getting an error message that
> says there are" more columns than column names."This is a file that was not
> created by me so I am
> not sure how to investigate and solve this problem.I looked in the help
> file and it suggested an auxilliary function called count.fieldsThe code
> that was used was:
> read.table(file="C:\\Documents and Settings\\Owner\\My Documents\\colon
> cancer1.txt",header=T,row.names=1)
> Any help would be appreciated
> paul
>
>
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