[R] Error importing data - wrapping?

[MacQueen, Don]

Some indication of what you have tried would be useful. Assuming you are
using read.table(), then the "fill" argument of read.table() might be what
you need. If you look at the help for read.table you will find:

>From ?read.table:
   fill: logical. If 'TRUE' then in case the rows have unequal length,
          blank fields are implicitly added.  See 'Details'.


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Don MacQueen

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On 5/9/15, 7:59 AM, "Kate Ignatius" <kate.ignatius at gmail.com> wrote:

>I have some data that I've trouble importing...
>
>A B C D E
>A 1232 0.565
>B 2323 0.5656 0.5656 0.5656
>C 2323 0.5656
>D 2323 0.5656
>E 2323 0.5656
>F 2323 0.5656
>G 2323 0.5656
>G 2323 0.5656 0.5656 0.5656
>
>When I input the data it seems to go like this:
>
>SampleID ItemB ItemC ItemD ItemE
>A 1232 0.565
>B 2323 0.5656
>0.5656 0.5656
>C 2323 0.5656
>D 2323 0.5656
>E 2323 0.5656
>F 2323 0.5656
>G 2323 0.5656
>G 2323 0.5656 0.5656 0.5656
>
>with the last two columns (or the two columns with vast amounts of
>missing data which are usually the last two = see SampleB) wrapping
>around - is there away to prevent this?
>
>Thanks!
>
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