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user3857176
user3857176

Reputation: 11

function 'read.table' and error

This is my data as "*.txt"

ID    LBI   RTI  WDI FLA  PSF  FSF ZDF1 PROZD
ar      ?,35.30,2.60,  ?,42.4,24.2,47.1,69
arn  1.23,27.00,3.59,122, 0.0,40.0,40.0,30
be   1.24,26.50,2.90,121,16.0,20.7,29.7,72
bi1  1.07,29.10,3.10,114,44.0, 2.6,26.3,68
bi2  1.08,43.70,2.40,105,32.6, 5.8,10.7,42
bie  1.39,29.50,2.78,126,14.0, 0.0,50.0,78
bn   1.31,26.30,2.10,119,15.7,15.7,30.4,72
bo   1.27,27.60,3.50,116,16.8,23.0,35.2,69
by   1.11,32.60,2.90,113,15.8,15.8,15.0,57

Then, it failed when I command 

r2 <- read.table('StoneFlakes.txt',header=TRUE,na.strings='?')

The error ; 

Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  : 
  line 1 did not have 9 elements

Anyone can help me?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 73

Answers (1)

Rentrop
Rentrop

Reputation: 21507

Use 

text <- readLines('StoneFlakes.txt')
text <- gsub(",", " ", text)
read.table(textConnection(text), header=TRUE, na.strings='?')
  #insted of using textConnection you can also use
read.table(text=text, header=TRUE, na.strings='?')

Upvotes: 3

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