R considers Mazda RX4 Wag to be three columns. There fore you have 6 columns of data and only 6 names.
Use " " like this "Mazda RX4" and Mazda Rx4 Wag" to indicate each is a single character value. --- jiqiang yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm a novice of R. > > I want to read the following table into R: > names mpg cyl disp hp drat > Mazda RX4 21.0 6 160.0 110 3.90 > Mazda RX4 Wag 21.0 6 160.0 110 3.90 > > The command I used is: > > test <- read.table(file.choose(),header=T) > > The result is: > Error in read.table(file.choose(), header = T) : > more columns than column names > > Can anybody tells me what is wrong? > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
