[R] NA when using read.csv

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Tue Aug 2 00:05:11 CEST 2005


On 8/1/05, Haibo Huang <edhuang00 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, when I used:
> 
> Dist=read.csv("test.csv",header=TRUE)
> 
> to read data from CSV file. For some cells, R
> mistakenly put in as NA, while most of the cells still

Its not likely that there are errors in this software so
its probably not a mistake but some other cause.

> appears to be right, and there is no error message in
> R. I am pretty sure the csv file is all right, but
> just can't figure out what went wrong. Can someone
> share your thoughts with me? Thanks!

Read the posting guide at  the bottom of each post.
In particular, cut down the input file to a few lines that
still exhibit the problem in order to provide a reproducible 
example. 

As an aside note that 'header = TRUE' is the default in read.csv
(but not on read.table) so you don't need to specify it.




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