title: read.table not detecting delimiters past line 6
body: <p>I am trying to read a short text file using '£' as a delimiter. It correctly puts the first five lines into two columns, but then gives the error: </p>
  
  <p><em>Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  : 
    line 6 did not have 2 elements</em></p>
  
  <p>The remaining lines are then all put into the first column. The first few lines of the text file I am reading has the following format:</p>
  
  <pre><code>czk11 (4).txt£ 2017-03-20 04:05:07.599+00:00  [F]  Thread 0 System not loaded, loading now, Engine Version: 1.8.11.415
  czk11 (4).txt£
  czk11 (4).txt£ 2017-03-20 04:05:09.130+00:00  [F]  Thread 0 System loading complete
  czk11 (4).txt£ 
  czk11 (5).txt£ 2017-03-21 04:57:24.060+00:00  [F]  Thread 0 System not loaded, loading now, Engine Version: 1.8.11.415
  czk11 (5).txt£ 
  czk11 (5).txt£ 2017-03-21 04:57:25.608+00:00  [F]  Thread 0 System loading complete
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am currently using the following lines to read it:</p>
  
  <pre><code>dat&lt;-file('merged.txt',encoding='UTF-16LE',open='r')
  data&lt;-read.table(dat,sep='£',fill=TRUE,header=FALSE,quote ="")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm sure there is a simple answer, I just can't see what it is! Many thanks</p>