Issue when importing dataset: `Error in scan(…): line 1 did not have 145 elements`

Question

I\'m trying to import my dataset in R using read.table():

Dataset.df <- read.table(\"C:\\\\dataset.txt\", header=TRUE)

But

Answer 1

One of my variables was categorical with one alternative being multi string ("no event"). When I used read.table, it assumed that the space after the first string meant the end of the data point and the second string was pushed to the next variable. I used sep= "\t" to solve the problem. I was using RStudio in a Mac OX environment. A previous solution was to transform .txt files to .csv in Excel, and afterwards open them with read.csv function.