read.csv row.names

Question

I\'m trying to read a column oriented csv file into R as a data frame.

the first line of the file is like so:

sDATE, sTIME,iGPS_ALT, ...

Answer 1

One possible reason can be an extra comma at the end of lines after the header line. Excel silently ignores them and removes while saving.

At least it was the case for me