[R] Error importing data - wrapping?

[Kate Ignatius]

I've tried colClasses="character", fill=T, as.is=T, header=F,
sep="\t", read.csv; read.delim, read.csv2, read.delim2.... don't know
what else to try.

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 11:13 AM, MacQueen, Don <macqueen1 at llnl.gov> wrote:
> 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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