I have a commonly recurring problem and wondered if folks would share
tips. I routinely get tab-delimited text files that I need to read in.
In very many cases, I get:

> a <- read.table('junk.txt.txt',header=T,skip=10,sep="\t")
Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec =
dec, :
 line 67 did not have 88 elements

I am typically able to go through the file and find a single quote or
something like that causing the problem, but with a recent set of
files, I haven't been able to find such an issue. What can I do to get
around this problem? I can use perl, also....

Thanks,
Sean

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