if your data for the rest of the file looks like this then  read.fwf will
work.
depending which vars you want to pull)

widths= c(18,32,41)

E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145228.cel        1

would pull 3 vars, E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-; 1435145228.cel;1

widths <-c(32,41)
E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145228.cel;1


you can set it differently, assign colnames and column classes as well

But the feilds must be fixed width.





On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:35 AM, amindlessbrain
<jillianrowe91286@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a total newbie question, but I could really use some help.
>
> I need to read in this file:
>
> SampleID        Disease
> E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145228.cel        1
> E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145451.cel        2
> E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145479.cel        2
> E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145132.cel        3
> E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145417.cel        3
> E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145301.cel        2
> E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145558.cel        1
> E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145073.cel        3
> E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145196.cel        2
> E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145511.cel        1
> E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145336.cel        3
> E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145260.cel        2
> E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145167.cel        2
> E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145387.cel        3
> E-CBIL-28-raw-cel-1435145099.cel        3
>
> (I'm not sure why the disease column isn't showing up as a tab here, but it
> is sep by "\t" in my file.
>
> I've tried several variations on these:
>
> pd <- read.AnnotatedDataFrame ("new_treat.txt" , header = TRUE ,  sep="\t",
> row.names = "SampleID", colClasses = c(Disease = "character"))
>
> And I keep on getting this error:
>
> Error in read.table(filename, sep = sep, header = header, quote = quote,  :
>  more columns than column names
>
> Any help would be very very very appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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