In some cases the missing values have been replaced by NAs so you can look
for those.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:28 AM, tedzzx <zengzhenxing@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Dear R users
> I am runing into a problem in reading data in R
> This is the error information
>
> a<-read.table("tt_mb_200409.txt",as.is=T)
> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,
> :
>  line 1653997 did not have 5 elements
>
> It seams that some lines don't have equal variables. I want to try
>
> > a<-read.table("tt_mb_200409.txt",as.is=T,fill=T)
> > a[1653997,]
>           V1      V2        V3     V4     V5
> 1653997 00992 2777010
>
> But, I want to delect the rows that do not have the same number of
> variables
> with others, how can I do this?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ted
>
>
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