Why does the output in the following say 2 and not 6?

> count.fields(textConnection("LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,,1971,8,2
+ LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Bhutan,1971,6,1
+ LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,China,1971,17,1
+ LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,China,1971,33,1
+ LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,HongKong,1971,16,2
+ LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,HongKong,1971,17,1
+ LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,HongKong,1971,22,1
+ LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,HongKong,1971,49,1
+ LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Kazakhstan,1971,20,1
+ LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Kazakhstan,1971,27,1
+ LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Kazakhstan,1971,33,1
+ LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Kazakhstan,1973,15,1
+ LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Romania-Europe,1971,10,1
+ LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Romania-Europe,1973,4,1
+ LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Sanchez-America,1973,9,1
+ LL1532An,ABC# Depot-A-,,1971,8,2"),sep=",")
 [1] 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
>




On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:59 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:
Looks like an encoding mismatch. You have not offered the requested
information about you setup so further comment would all be guesswork. But
you can perhaps educate yourself by reading:

?Encoding

And line ten has 7 elements.

> count.fields(textConnection(",**,,1968,21,0
+ ,,Boston,1968,13,0
+ ,,Boston,1968,18,0
+ ,,Chicago,1967,44,0
+ ,,Providence,1968,17,0
+ ,,Providence,1969,48,0
+ ,,Binky,1968,24,0
+ ,,Chicago,1968,23,0
+ ,,Dally,1968,7,0
+ ,,Raleigh, North Carol,1968,25,0
+ Addy ABC-Dogs Stars-W8.1,,Providence,1968,**38,0
+ DEF_REQPRF/,,Dartmouth,1967,**31,1
+ PL,,,1967,38,1
+ XY,PopatLal,,1967,5,1
+ XY,PopatLal,,1967,6,8
+ XY,PopatLal,,1967,7,7
+ XY,PopatLal,,1967,9,1
+ XY,PopatLal,,1967,10,1
+ XY,PopatLal,,1967,13,1
+ XY,PopatLal,Boston,1967,6,1
+ XY,PopatLal,Boston,1967,7,11
+ XY,PopatLal,Boston,1967,9,2
+ XY,PopatLal,Boston,1967,10,3
+ XY,PopatLal,Boston,1967,7,2"),**sep=",")
 [1] 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
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