Hi Hannes,
>From my experience, this error usually happens when you've got spaces in the
header row, in the column names.
An easy solution would be to open the file in excel, then run
search-and-replace on the header row for all spaces and replace them with a
hyphen "-".

Hope it helped (please let us know if it did)

With kind regards,
Tal




On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:09 PM, hannesPretorius <talk2hannes@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> When I read the entire text file in I get the following message
>
> > x <- read.table('c:/small.txt', sep='\t', header=TRUE)
> Warning message:
> number of items read is not a multiple of the number of columns.
>
> thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> hannesPretorius wrote:
> >
> > Ok i feel pretty stupid.. been trying to read a text file that contains
> > heading in the first line in to R but cant. all i need to do is make a
> > contour plot for a friend but after weeks i feel like giving up.. i
> > included the first few lines of the file.. any help will be great
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Hannes http://www.nabble.com/file/p24777697/small.txt small.txt
> >
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