Dear all,
I have encountered a strange problem with read.table(). When I try to
read a tab delimited file I get an error message for line 260 not being
equal to 14 (see below).
Using count.fields() suggests that a number of lines have length not
equal to 14, but not 260.
Looking at the actual file, however, I cannot see anything wrong with
any lines. They all seem to have length 14, there are no double tabs
etc., and the file reads correctly in other programs. Does anyone have
any suggestions as to what this might stem from?
I have placed a copy of the file at
http://dss.ucsd.edu/~kgledits/archigos_v.1.9.asc
regards,
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
> archigos1.9 <- read.table("c:/work/work12/archigos/archigos_v.1.9.asc",
+ sep="\t",header=T,as.is=T,row.names=NULL)
Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec =
dec, :
line 260 did not have 14 elements
> a <- count.fields("c:/work/work12/archigos/archigos_v.1.9.asc",sep="\t")
> a <- data.frame(c(1:length(a)),a)
> a[a[,2]!=14,]
c.1.length.a.. a
150 150 10
313 313 10
424 424 10
1189 1189 5
1510 1510 10
1514 1514 10
1590 1590 5
1600 1600 10
1612 1612 10
1618 1618 10
1619 1619 10
1709 1709 10
1722 1722 10
1981 1981 10
1985 1985 10
2112 2112 10
2178 2178 10
2208 2208 10
2224 2224 10
2530 2530 5
2536 2536 5
2573 2573 5
2928 2928 5
--
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Department of Political Science, UCSD
(On leave, University of Essex, 2005-6)
Tel: +44 1206 872499, Fax: +44 1206 873234
Email: kgleditsch@(protected)
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~kgledits/
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