You also might use 'count.fields' to see how many values are on each line.
Also do you have any comment charaters in the text?  Here is a large file
that is fine:

> # create a large file
> myFile <- tempfile()
> myConn <- file(myFile, 'w')
> for (i in 1:20000) writeLines("1 2 3 4 5 6", myConn)
> close(myConn)
> file.show(myFile)
> # now read it
> myConn <- file(myFile, 'r')
> x <- read.table(myConn)
> close(myConn)
> str(x)
'data.frame':   20000 obs. of  6 variables:
 $ V1: int  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
 $ V2: int  2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ...
 $ V3: int  3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 ...
 $ V4: int  4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ...
 $ V5: int  5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 ...
 $ V6: int  6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 ...
>


On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:25 PM, IAIN GALLAGHER <
iaingallagher@btopenworld.com> wrote:

> I'm pretty sure I've had similar problems to this in the past and the
> problem has been a badly formatted text file ie you think it's all tab
> delimited but it's not.
>
> I can't be more specific (because it's your file) but it would be worth
> copying the non appearing rows into a separate file and see if you can track
> down the region of the file that's causing the problem.
>
> Cheers
>
> Iain
>
> RobertsLRRI <raymond.roberts@ncf.edu> wrote:
>
> You are asked to follow the posting guide and to provide "commented,
> minimal, self-contained, reproducible code".
>
> Code entered:
> Influenza<-read.delim("C://Documents and
> Settings//rroberts//desktop//H5N1//0v8a1n3.dat.txt")
>
> Influenza
>
> rows
> 6505
> ...
> 14421
>
>
> So the first 6504 rows aren't displayed
>
> Thank you
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