[R] Re: row.names in read.table()

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Ko-Kang Kevin Wang wrote:

> Whoops.  Problem solved.  I have one extra columns of data at the end
> (though I don't know why the error message did not say that, but said
> about row.names!).

With header=T, it was interpreting the first columns as row names.
That's standard behaviour: see the help page.  If you don't want that, set
row.names.


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