How to load df with 1000 separator in R as numeric class?

Question

I have a UTF-16 Unicode Text (.txt) file downloaded and defaulted as comma-separated values (.csv) when saved on a mac drive. This file contains numeric data that has 1000 s

Answer 1

Thank you everyone who helped here. I actually found that my load function was the problem, and the following code does a simple trick to read in data correctly from the start.

read.csv(filename, sep="\t", fileEncoding="UTF-16", skip=1)