[Rd] read.table: wrong error message? (PR#10592)

2008-01-21 Thread david . reitter
--Apple-Mail-44--797532055 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I believe read.table may report misleading errors. In this example, where a header line in a file has an incorrect number of row names (28

Re: [Rd] read.table: wrong error message? (PR#10592)

2008-01-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --Apple-Mail-44--797532055 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I believe read.table may report misleading errors. In this example, where a header line in a file has an incorrect

Re: [Rd] read.table: wrong error message? (PR#10592)

2008-01-21 Thread ripley
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --Apple-Mail-44--797532055 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I believe read.table may report misleading errors. In this example, where a header line in a

Re: [Rd] read.table: wrong error message? (PR#10592)

2008-01-21 Thread david . reitter
--Apple-Mail-1--729254567 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 21 Jan 2008, at 11:38, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: The first column of your file repeats 0 and 1, and your specification asked for the first

Re: [Rd] read.table: wrong error message? (PR#10592)

2008-01-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, David Reitter wrote: On 21 Jan 2008, at 11:38, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: The first column of your file repeats 0 and 1, and your specification asked for the first column to be taken as the row names: from the help file If 'row.names' is not specified and the header