R Error when Reading Data: more columns than names (2 Examples)
In this tutorial, I’ll show how to deal with the error “more columns than column names” in R.
Example 1: Replicating the Error Message – more columns than column names
read.table("some_data.txt", # Error header = TRUE) |
read.table("some_data.txt", # Error header = TRUE)
Example 2: Solving the Error Message – more columns than column names
read.table("some_data.txt", # Specifying comma-separator header = TRUE, sep = ",") |
read.table("some_data.txt", # Specifying comma-separator header = TRUE, sep = ",")
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