I recently attempted to read a .txt file using both read.table(" ",header=TRUE)
and read.delim(" ",header=TRUE) and received the following message
Error in edit.data.frame(get(subx, envir = parent), ...) :
symbol print-name too long
I am able to also create a variable x<-read.delim (" ",header=TRUE ) , but am
unable to fix(x) because of the same errror
Error in edit.data.frame(get(subx, envir = parent), ...) :
symbol print-name too long
I have read nearly identical files many times without problems - indeed, a subsequent,
slightly different query of very similar data, formatted in same operation, did not
give this error when read by R.
I suspect the error is the result of some overly long string somewhere, in a column
header, since I do not encounter the error, when changing the command to header=FALSE.
However, I need the variable names, and I if there are restrictions on the length of
these names, then I will need to know them so that they are made parameters for data
entry in the original data source.
Do I just have to live with this or is there a fix of some kind?
Jeffrey Lins
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