You need to supply the actual input line so we can see what is happening.
Are you sure you do not have unbalanced quotes in your input (try quote='')
or do you have comment characters ("#") in your input?

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Martin Tomko <martin.tomko@geo.uzh.ch>wrote:

> Dear All,
> I am observing a strange behavior and searching the archives and help pages
> didn't help much.
> I have a csv with a variable number of fields in each line.
>
> I use
> dataPoints <- read.csv(inputFile, head=FALSE, sep=";",fill =TRUE);
>
> to read it in, and it works. But - some lines are long and 'wrap', or split
> and continue on the next line. So when I check the dim of the frame, they
> are not correct and I can see when I do a printout that the lines is split
> into two in the frame. I checked the input file and all is good.
>
> an example of the input is:
> 37;2175168475;13;8.522729;47.19537;16366682@N00
> ;30;sculpture;bird;tourism;animal;statue;canon;eos;rebel;schweiz;switzerland;eagle;swiss;adler;skulptur;zug;1750;28;tamron;f28;canton;tourismus;vogel;baar;kanton;xti;tamron1750;1750mm;tamron1750mm;400d;rabbitriotnet;
>
> where the last values occurs on the next line in the data frame.
>
> It does not have to be the last value, as in the follwong example, the word
> "kempten" starts the next line:
> 39;167757703;12;10.309295;47.724545;21903142@N00
> ;36;white;building;tower;clock;clouds;germany;bayern;deutschland;bavaria;europa;europe;eagle;adler;eu;wolke;dome;townhall;rathaus;turm;weiss;allemagne;europeanunion;bundesrepublik;gebaeude;glocke;brd;allgau;kuppel;europ;kempten;niemcy;europo;federalrepublic;europaischeunion;europaeischeunion;germanio;
>
> What could be the reason?
>
> I ws thinking about solving the issue by using a different separator, that
> I would use for the first 7 fields and concatenating all of the remaining
> values into a single stirng value, but could not figure out how to do such a
> substitution in R. Unfortunately, on my system I cannot specify a range for
> sed...
>
> Thanks for any help/pointers
> Martin
>
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