Community: If one has a data set that does not have true headers (i.e., line1 is not all headers): Line1 Table No 1 Line 2 ID AMT DV How should the following header code be edited? datr<-read.table(file="popfo7n_100.fit",header=T) Would the same edit be correct for the ne…

[image] jacksonan1: header=T Just set header = FALSE, no? Check out the read.table documentation: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/read.table.html header a logical value indicating whether the file contains the names of the variables as its first line. If missing…

@jacksonan1 I'm not sure that I've understood what you are asking, but looking at those two lines of data I'm guessing that Line 1 has a header that relates to the whole table (ie it is table number 1) and that the column headers are then in line 2? In this case, the following would work (reading f…

That was the first thing that I did but I get the error : datr<-read.table(file="popfo7n_100.fit",header=False) Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec = dec, : line 1 did not have 18 elements There is still an issue trying to input this file which the change in co…

Ron: You do have the correct understanding that the first line of the table is junk and needs to be skipped. My question is do I have to put in the entire table as you did or can I just designate the junk entry? Thanks

I was able to read in the data with this code: datr<-read.table(file="popfo7n_100.fit",skip=1, nrows=46400, header=T) However when I tried to convert all the variables to characters with this code: datr<-read.table(file="popfo7n_100.fit",header=T,as.is=TRUE) The resulting fix(datar) command fo…

Proper code formatting would make it easier for helpers to understand your situation. Since you’re posting from e-mail, you may not realize it but none of the whitespace in your posts is preserved unless text is in a designated code block. To add code formatting, just set off each chunk of code with…

Is there a forum link on line where I can post and circumvent the need to use ``` the 3 backtick fence for code?

You can also select the text and hit the code symbol (see above). You could make a gist at gist.github.com , but it's nice for the people helping you to have everything in one place. [image] Also, using reprex will do the formatting for you. For pointers specific to the community site, check out t…

From your reply button, I see how it works, but can you give me the exact link where one can access the text box. Sorry but that was not clear.

Yes! Your topic lives here: Read.table with no header (Since you originally posted it at the end of an unrelated thread, it was split off into its own topic by a moderator) I edited your original post to insert the code formatting (so people could see the layout of the data you're trying to import…

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