From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu May  9 17:53:22 2002
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 18:53:22 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: [Rd] read.table (PR#1535)
Message-ID: <200205091653.SAA23417@pubhealth.ku.dk>

Note that read.table changed in 1.4.0: see the NEWS file and its help
page.

Here's my guess: line 6808 contains a comment character #.

There is a section on BUGS in the FAQ: please read it!

On Thu, 9 May 2002 ebura@gwu.edu wrote:

> I downloaded the latest version of R (1.5.0) and issued a read.table() command
> that used to work with (1.3.1). Unfortunately I erased 1.3.1 from my hard
> drive after I downloaded R 1.5.0.
>
> Here's the command and the error message I get under 1.5.0:
>
> >
> golub1<-read.table("C:/Microarrays/code/data_set_ALL_AML_train.txt",sep="\t",q
> uote="",header=T,row.names=NULL)
> Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec = dec,
> :
>         line 6808 did not have 79 elements
>
> Any help will be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Efstathia
>
>
>
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