Tried deleting several line above and below line 362; did that and changed
the extension.  Still finds the same number of rows (362).

Strange!
Jonathan



On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:19 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:

>
> On Dec 20, 2009, at 12:07 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
>
>> On Dec 19, 2009, at 11:42 PM, Jonathan 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.
>>>
>>
>> There is something wrong with line 362. If you delete it and reload the
>> task completes.
>>
>
> It does complete but not because of something in line 362. What also got
> changes in the process was the file name. Try changing the extension to .csv
> and see if that solves the problem. It does on my Mac running R 2.10.1  (...
> and I don't have an explanation.)
>
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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,
>>>
>>
>>
>> David Winsemius, MD
>> Heritage Laboratories
>> West Hartford, CT
>>
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