Dear all,

I am stuck the reading of a file which has 100s of rows and variable column counts.

The tab-limited data file looks something like:

Some_Text     1    3    123    1534    -119    1010    178
Some_Taxt     1    3    133    1434    -219    1010    178
Some_Tsxt     1    3    244    1334    -319    1010    178
Some_Tfxt     1    3    153    1234    -419    1010    178
Some_Trxt     1    3    163    1234    -519    1010    178

When I try reading it using:

rawData=read.table("Datafile.dat", fill=FALSE, sep="\t", header=FALSE);

I get something like

Some_Text     1    3    123    1534    -119    1010    178
Some_Taxt     1    3    133    1434    -219    1010    178
1010
Some_Tsxt     1    3    244    1334    -319    1010    178
Some_Tfxt     1    3    153    1234    -419    1010    178
-419
Some_Trxt     1    3    163    1234    -519    1010    178

I am not sure what this is. It also appear to be quenching some of the columns, which may be the problem. My current maximum is around 250, but this is not determined. When importing it the maximum table size seems to stop at 146.

Has anyone seen this before?

Many thanks,

Ingo

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