[R] Tables

[jim holtman]

How are you sure it moved the data?  What is the column separator that
you have?  Is it just 'white space' as opposed to a tab or comma?  It
you have a CSV file with a separator, the system knows where the
columns are.  If it sees  'a  b  c' and then 'a     c' as the next
row, 'c' will be in column 2 even though you thought 'b' was missing.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:39 AM, skrug <skrug at ifm-geomar.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am just starting using R. Hence, sorry for asking probably rather easy
> questions.
>
> I used "read.table" to bring an .txt Table to R. Unfortunately the columns
> do not have the same length. I tried "fill=TRUE", to fill the blank space
> with "na". In a certain kind of way it worked, but befor filling the spaces
> it moved data from later columns to the first:
>
> 1    a   b   c                  1   a   b   c
> 2   a   b      c                  2   a   b   c  3   a   b      c
>         3   a   b    c 4      b      c                     4   b   c    NA
> 5            c                       5   c   NA NA
>
> What is my mistake?
>
> Thank you
> Sebastian
>
>
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