I am trying to read in this data: http://www.stat.nthu.edu.tw/~swcheng/Teaching/stat5410/data/wastes.txt

But I keep getting error message from R, how can I fix it?

Error in make.names(col.names, unique = TRUE) 

CodePudding user response：

It appears that the last-row contains a weird symbol. Let us examine this:

library(readr)

wastes <- read_table("http://www.stat.nthu.edu.tw/~swcheng/Teaching/stat5410/data/wastes.txt")

wastes %>% 
  tail()

#' Last value loaded is junk. Discard it;
#' 
wastes <- wastes %>% 
  slice(-n())
wastes

I'd just do this.