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Subject: Re: Babel: communicating irregular data to R source-code block
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On Monday, April 23, 2012 at 11:44 PM Thomas S. Dye wrote:=0A.=0A.=0A.=0A> =
The documentation of read.table has this:=0A=0A> The number of data columns=
 is determined by looking at the first five lines=0A> of input (or the whol=
e file if it has less than five lines), or from the=0A> length of col.names=
 if it is specified and is longer. This could conceivably=0A> be wrong if f=
ill or blank.lines.skip are true, so specify col.names if=0A> necessary (as=
 in the =E2=80=98Examples=E2=80=99).=0A=0A> The example is this:=0A=0A> rea=
d.csv(tf, fill =3D TRUE, header =3D FALSE,=0A>=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=
=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 col.names =3D paste("V", seq_len(ncol), sep =3D ""))=
=0A=0A> where read.csv is a synonym of read.table with preset arguments.=0A=
=0A> This explains why the sixth line wraps.=0A.=0A.=0A.=0A=0AThanks, Tom.=
=C2=A0 I had just run across this myself. I guess I need to walk a mile=0Ai=
n somebody's moccasins before complaining, but this behavior on the part of=
 R=0Aseems totally stupid to me.=0A=0AI'm going to have to mull this over s=
ome more.=0A=0A-- Mike