[R] Importing Large Dataset into Excel

[jim holtman]

?count.fields

count.fields will tell you how many items are in each line.  As you
said, they should all be the same, but this will confirm it.

field.count <- count.fields("newborn edit.csv", sep=",")
table(field.count)  # determine count of the fields on a line

On Dec 11, 2007 7:15 PM, Wayne Aldo Gavioli <wgavioli at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
>
> I seem to be having a problem importing a data set from Excel into R.  I'm using
> the "read.table" command to import the data with the following line of code:
>
> > newborn<-read.table("newborn edit.csv", header=T, sep=",")
>
>
> where "newborn edit.csv" is the name of the file.  Unfortunately, I'm getting
> back the following error message:
>
>
> "Error in scan(file,, what, nmax, sep, dc, quote, skip, nlines, na.string, :
> line 528 did not have 44 elements"
>
>
> As far as I can tell, line 528 of the spreadsheet table does have the same
> number of elements as the other rows - by chance can this error message mean
> anything else?  Also, is there an easier way to import data from R into Excel
> using a single line of R code?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Wayne
>
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