[R] i'm so stuck with text file and contour plot

[David Winsemius]

Doubtful. The OP did have spaces in his header. but by specifying that  
only tabs should be used as delimiters the default parameters to both  
read.table and read.csv would have converted the spaces to periods.

See:
read.table(file="http://www.nabble.com/file/p24777697/small.txt",  
sep="\t", header=TRUE)

-- 
DW

On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Tal Galili wrote:

> Hi Hannes,
>> From my experience, this error usually happens when you've got  
>> spaces in the
> header row, in the column names.
> An easy solution would be to open the file in excel, then run
> search-and-replace on the header row for all spaces and replace them  
> with a
> hyphen "-".
>
> Hope it helped (please let us know if it did)
>
> With kind regards,
> Tal
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:09 PM, hannesPretorius <talk2hannes at gmail.com 
> >wrote:
>
>>
>> When I read the entire text file in I get the following message
>>
>>> x <- read.table('c:/small.txt', sep='\t', header=TRUE)
>> Warning message:
>> number of items read is not a multiple of the number of columns.
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> hannesPretorius wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok i feel pretty stupid.. been trying to read a text file that  
>>> contains
>>> heading in the first line in to R but cant. all i need to do is  
>>> make a
>>> contour plot for a friend but after weeks i feel like giving up.. i
>>> included the first few lines of the file.. any help will be great
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Hannes http://www.nabble.com/file/p24777697/small.txt small.txt
>>>
>>
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