the problem might be a missing quote. Try quote = ''
Or it might be a comment character, so try comment.char = '' This happens a lot if your data is not clean Sent from my iPad On Nov 30, 2011, at 19:48, nsaraf <nsa...@gmail.com> wrote: > ) ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.