Hi I hope someone can shed some light on this:

 

For some reason when I 

 

read.table("bfx.txt")

 

R decides to only give back the first character from each column in each row as one single column.

 

Like this:

 

    V1

1   ÿşr

2    \n

3     r

4     1

5     0

6     A

7     G

8    \n

9     r

10    1

11    0

12    T

13    C

14   \n

 

The data should be:

 

rs153410928 153410928 0.98802328 A G

rs153411383 153411383 0.988026211 G A

rs153411809 153411809 0.988028954 A G

rs153411854 153411854 0.988029244 A G

rs153413052 153413052 0.988036959 T C

 

so not only is it screwing the data it's also missing the first 3 lines. Is this something I've done? I've tried dos2unix to make sure the files are ok, added colClasses="character", sep=" " etc but with no success.

 

I'm just about at the end of my tether right now so any help will be gratefully received!

 

Dan

 

Daniel Alcock
Malaria Genetics (T112)
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute



 

Daniel Alcock
Malaria Genetics (T112)
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Cambridge
CB10 1SA
UK

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