Most likely an unbalanced quote.  put the following option in the
read.table:

quote='', comment.char=''

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Jonathan <jonsleepy@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello again,
>     I am simply trying to import a rectangular table of strings.  The
> table's dimensions are 1990 x 2, yet my read.table() command can only find
> 362 of the rows (and they're not the first 362).  I would've taken the time
> to figure out how to use scan, readLines, or some other tool that can read
> in character strings, and then parse and input to a table, but that seems
> like overkill, and probably it would be good to understand what's wrong
> with
> my text file.
>
> The file is here.
>
> https://regtransfers-sth-se.diino.com/download/jonsleepy/_mydropbox_/finalInput.xls
>
> The code is here:
> temp <- as.matrix(read.table('finalInput.xls', header=FALSE, sep = "\t"))
> dim(temp) #expect 1990 x 2; but find 362 x 2
>
> Sorry to require a download (this probably won't make people happy), but
> since my problem is file-specific, the file is needed for troubleshooting.
>
> I generated it with some grep, gawk commands using Cygwin in a Windows
> environment (though subsequently converted it to Windows format - R loads
> it
> exactly the same way, regardless of whether it's in linux or windows
> format)
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan
>
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