[R] Problem reading large tables

[Daniel Sumers Myers]

Hi, 
	I'm trying to read in a fairly large (92 observations by 3680 variables)
table into R from a space-delimited text file (attached) using the command: d8
<- read.table('d8.r', header=T). The function call runs to completion, and I
get back a valid table object. However, starting at column 999, the table
records the value TRUE when it should record T (T's in columns 998 and earlier
are fine). I've looked at the data file, and I can see no difference between
(e.g.) the T at position 998 in row 1 and the T in position 999 in row 1, yet
998 is recorded as T and 999 as TRUE. 

I know I could just update the table in R to change all TRUEs to Ts, but I'm
worried there may be some underlying limit I'm running up against. I've tried
this on both R-1.7.1 and 1.8.1 on Linux/IA-32. Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Daniel

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