Question

I have a text document that is separated by tab. I did notice a bunch of tabs after the data in the text doc and am unsure if that is the issue here.

I have set the working directory:

setwd(“D:/Classes/CSC/gmcar_price”)

Then I attempt to read the table using

data=read.table(“gmcar_price.txt”, header=T)

But this error is coming up:

Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, :
line 11 did not have 13 elements

Any idea what is going on here? I have looked at line 11 and all the data is there.

Edit:

this is the format of the data

Price,Mileage,Make,Model,Trim,Type,Cylinder,Liter,Doors,Cruise,Sound,Leather

Answer 1

 data=read.table("gmcar.price.txt", header=T, sep = "\t")

Thanks to shujaa, this solved the issue that I was having.