cdu@nuuk:~/operon$ grep '^#' id_name_gh5.txt
cdu@nuuk:~/operon$

no lines starts with #



On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Barry Rowlingson <
b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Changbin Du <changbind@gmail.com> wrote:
> > HI, Dear R community,
> >
> > My original file has 1932 lines, but when I read into R, it changed to
> 1068
> > lines, how comes?
> >
> >
> > cdu@nuuk:~/operon$ wc -l id_name_gh5.txt
> > 1932 id_name_gh5.txt
> >
> >
> >> gene_name<-read.table("/home/cdu/operon/id_name_gh5.txt", sep="\t",
> > skip=0, header=F, fill=T)
> >> dim(gene_name)
> > [1] 1068    3
> >
> >
>
>  Do any of your lines start with a "#"?
>
> > read.table("test.txt",sep="\t")
>      V1
> 1 line 1
> 2 line 2
> 3 line 3
> 4 line 4
>
> > read.table("test.txt",comment.char="",sep="\t")
>               V1
> 1          line 1
> 2      #commented
> 3          line 2
> 4          line 3
> 5 #nother comment
> 6          line 4
>
>  just a guess. hard to tell without the file...
>
> Barry
>



-- 
Sincerely,
Changbin
--

Changbin Du
DOE Joint Genome Institute
Bldg 400 Rm 457
2800 Mitchell Dr
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