[R] R eat my data

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Changbin Du <changbind at gmail.com> wrote:
> HI, Dear R community,
>
> My original file has 1932 lines, but when I read into R, it changed to 1068
> lines, how comes?
>
>
> cdu at nuuk:~/operon$ wc -l id_name_gh5.txt
> 1932 id_name_gh5.txt
>
>
>> gene_name<-read.table("/home/cdu/operon/id_name_gh5.txt", sep="\t",
> skip=0, header=F, fill=T)
>> dim(gene_name)
> [1] 1068    3
>
>

 Do any of your lines start with a "#"?

> read.table("test.txt",sep="\t")
      V1
1 line 1
2 line 2
3 line 3
4 line 4

> read.table("test.txt",comment.char="",sep="\t")
               V1
1          line 1
2      #commented
3          line 2
4          line 3
5 #nother comment
6          line 4

 just a guess. hard to tell without the file...

Barry