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caroline
caroline

Reputation: 98

R programming - read a table

I have one problem when I want to read a table from txt file in R. When I do 

dat <- read.table("~/data/data.txt", quote="\""),

it is working perfectly. But, when I try to name the colums with this commands : 

dat <- read.table("~/data/data.txt",quote="\"",c("com","Type","blabla","blabla"),header=TRUE).

I have this error : 

Error in scan(file, what = "", sep = sep, quote = quote, nlines = 1, quiet = TRUE,  :   invalid 'sep' value: must be one byte)

Thanks for your help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 644

Answers (1)

Knak
Knak

Reputation: 489

If you want to rename the columns, just add col.names = before your vector of names.

You therefore have something like: 

dat <- read.table("~/data/data.txt", quote="\"", 
                  col.names=c("com", "Type", "blabla", "blabla"), header=TRUE).

This might solve your problem.

Upvotes: 3

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