On Oct 27, 2010, at 1:53 PM, smcguffee wrote:


Hi,
I have a data file with hundreds of rows, with every first, second, third, and fourth line representing a set of numbers for row names x, y, fit, and residuals, respectively. However, any given group of these lines might be
from 10 to 20000 values long.

When I try
fits=read.delim2("test")

Try adding  ...
 , header=FALSE, quote="")
.....to the read arguments. (You have no header and the leading and trailing double-quotes result in everything getting read in in one column.)

Error in read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,
:
 more columns than column names

When I try
fits=readLines("test")
it reads the data, but doesn't separate it into values:
head(fits)
[1] "1\t30049\t30204\tsegment_4\t35\t."
[2]
"bp \t30049 \t30065 \t30071 \t30114 \t30119 \t30121 \t30126 \t30130\t30132\t30134\t30137\t30146\t30151\t30165\t30174\t30204\t"
[3] "origScore\t4\t1\t1\t2\t1\t1\t2\t2\t2\t6\t5\t2\t1\t2\t1\t2\t"
[4]
"fit \t2.15669 \t2.20976 \t2.22514 \t2.25842 \t2.25336 \t2.25082 \t2.24318 \t2.23576 \t2.23161 \t2.22718\t2.21999\t2.19465\t2.17818\t2.12334\t2.08169\t1.91129\t"
[5]
"residuals \t1.84331 \t -1.20976 \t -1.22514 \t -0.258424 \t -1.25336 \t -1.25082 \t -0.243182 \t -0.235756 \t -0.23161 \t3.77282 \t2.78001\t-0.194654\t-1.17818\t-0.123344\t-1.08169\t0.0887071\t"

Can anyone help me do this?
Thanks,
Sean


--
View this message in context: 
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-do-I-read-multiple-rows-of-different-lengths-tp3015986p3015986.html
Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

______________________________________________
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.

David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

______________________________________________
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.

Reply via email to