Nina,

read.csv() will default fill = TRUE,
or add to your read.table() argument list.

If that does not help, you will need to use col.names argument. see
?read.table

HTH,
Jim Porzak
Responsys, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimporzak

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:16 AM, <naw3@duke.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a CSV file where each row has at least 20 columns and some rows have
> up
> to 30 columns of data. When I use the command,
>
> Pathways<-read.table('MetaCycSample3.csv',sep=',',header=FALSE,quote='"')
>
> anything past the 21st column gets kicked down to a new row. How can I fix
> this?
>
> Thanks,
> -Nina
>
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