[R] Unable to re-import a table that was just exported to a file

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 13:05:58 CEST 2009


Take a look at the output file.  You may need 'header=TRUE' on the read.table.

It would be good to at least supply the first couple of lines of the
file that you are trying to read.  The error message is self
explanitory: you have more columns than there are names on the first
line.

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Nigel Birney <nan23 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am saving a program's output to a file to be read by another algorithm.
> But somehow such a simple operation (the reading) fails. I get:
>
> Error in read.table("a_corr_data.txt", sep = ",", col.names = T, row.names =
> F) :
>  more columns than column names
>
>
> Here is the write statement:
>
>
> write.table(a_corr_data,"a_corr_data.txt",sep=",",col.names=T,row.names=F)
>
> Here is the read statement:
>
> a_corr_data <-
> read.table("a_corr_data.txt",sep=",",col.names=T,row.names=F)
>
> Nothing happens in-between (these actions are just 10-30 secs apart). I
> tried to export/import without col.names, also tried different deliminators
> ("/t") but the same error pops up again and again. I am already quite
> unhappy with this.
>
> thanks,
>
> N.
>
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