Check for unbalanced quotes or comments.  try:
count.fields("RWM Shopper Tracker - RAW DATA - 22JUN09 - Copy.csv",
quote='', comment.char='',
sep=",")

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Chris Howden <tall.chriss@yahoo.com.au>wrote:

> Morning all,
>
> I'm trying to read in a csv file and R is having some problems. For some
> reason its not 'seeing' all the columns for each row, and as such is not
> reading in the file.
>
> I've opened the file in EXCEL and I can't see any problems with it. All
> rows
> have the correct number of columns.
>
> The code and error messages I've used are below. I've also run
> 'count'fields" and have included that output too.
>
> Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> <-read.table("RWM Shopper Tracker - RAW DATA - 22JUN09 - Copy.csv",
> header=TRUE, sep =",", row.names=NULL)
>
> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,
> :
>  line 13 did not have 2264 elements
>
>
> > count.fields("RWM Shopper Tracker - RAW DATA - 22JUN09 - Copy.csv",
> sep=",")
>    [1] 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264  384 2264 2264
> 384 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264
>   [23] 2264 2264 2264 2264  152 2264  384 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264
> 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264 2264
>
>
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