>
> Hi,
>
> Im trying to import data from yahoo into R. I downloaded the data from
> yahoo into a csv file and then saved the csv file into a txt file (tab
> delimited).
>
> From R I then call the function
>
> read.table("t1.txt")
>
> but I get the following error
>
> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines,
> na.strings,  :
>   line 2 did not have 8 elements
>
> I tried
>
> read.table("t1.txt", header=T)
>
> but same error
>
> I suspect this is linked to the fact I seem to be importing an extra
> column but I have no idea on how to get rid of this extra column.
>
> My R version is R 2.13.1
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards
>
> Krisan
>

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