title: read.table imports less rows than in the .txt file
body: <p>I've been trying to import a text file that has 878847 records.  When I run <code>read.table</code> the resulting dataset only has 403681 observations.  Does anyone know a way to fix this, or a work around?
  The .txt file was a copy of some data in an .xls file (which is just a pain to import so I didn't bother)</p>
  
  <p><code>read &lt;- read.table(file="myfile.txt", header=TRUE, sep="\t", fill=TRUE)</code></p>
  
  <p>Any help on this would be appreciated (I need this for work!)</p>
  
  <p>many thanks</p>