[R] How to read data from this csv?

[Peter Ehlers]

On 2010-06-18 23:22, YI LIU wrote:
> I am so frustrated about reading data from this sample csv file.
>
> My code is :
>
>> test=read.csv(file='test.csv',header=T)
>
> warning message:
>
> In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :
>    incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'test.csv'
>> test
>
> [1] ÐÏ.à..
> <0 rows>  (or 0-length row.names)
>
> What is  the problem here?

No need to get frustrated; your file is not what you
think it is.

Most likely at least one of the lines in test.csv is _not_
complete, i.e. it's missing some data, which is what R is
trying to tell you.

Try count.fields() on your file and see if all lines do
have the same number of fields.

   -Peter Ehlers

>
> Thanks
>