Confusing error in R: Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : line 1 did not have 42 elements) [duplicate]

Answer 1

To read characters try

scan("/PathTo/file.csv", "")

If you're reading numeric values, then just use

scan("/PathTo/file.csv")

scan by default will use white space as separator. The type of the second arg defines 'what' to read (defaults to double()).