On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:08 -0500, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote: > For the TAB delimited columns, adjust the 'sep' argument to: > > read.table("data.gct", skip = 2, header = TRUE, sep = "\t") > > The 'quote' argument is by default: > > quote = "\"'" > > which should take care of the quoted strings and bring them in as a > single value. > > The above presumes that the header row is also TAB delimited. If not, > you may have to set 'skip = 3' to skip over the header row and manually > set the column names.
One correction. If the final para applies and you need to use 'skip = 3', you would also need to leave out the 'header = TRUE' argument, which defaults to FALSE. Marc ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html