[R] help required on read.table

[Peter Dalgaard]

Krishna <snvk4u at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all
> 
> i am facing a peculiar problem for data input using read.table which i
> never faced previously.
> 
> i have a data file by name abnew.txt with two coloumns data as depicted below.
> 
> A     B
> 420 422
> 314 321

(with A left-justified and B right-ditto???)
 
> the txt file is created using the excel save as option. i issued the
> statement as
> 
> > a <- read.table("abnew.txt", header=TRUE) 
> > a
>      X.þS
> 1      NA
> 2       2
> 3       2
> 4      NA
> 5       2
> 6       2
> 7      NA
> 8       2
> 9       2
> 10     NA
> 
> the o/p looks like as copied above. can some one help me on correct
> data reading. your earliest response will help me a lot.

What do you get from readLines("abnew.txt")? 


You might want to try read.delim("abnew.txt").

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