[R] read.table with different row lengths

[Chris Poliquin]

Hi,

I need to read in a series of text files with a time series on each  
row.  The series are of different lengths and I'd like to just use the  
first row as the length and have R ignore extra values in rows that go  
over this length.

For example:

1 0 3 4 5
1 3 5 6 8 7 7
2 1 1 1 4 7 7 7

So the 7s would be ignored and I would have a 5x3 matrix.  I tried  
creating a series of colClasses with NULLs for the extra values by  
using max(count.fields(file)) - min(count.fields(file)) but this  
didn't work and would be too time consuming for lots of files.

fill=T doesn't seem to be working either.  When I use fill=T I get  
extra rows for some reason in the table.  R doesn't seem to just be  
appending NAs to the end of the short rows.

Any way to accomplish this?

- Chris