[R] read table

[John Kane]

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 <jiqiang123 at yahoo.com> 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?
> 
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