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It's not to do with pushback per se. The works as one might expect,
e.g.
f <- file("test.txt", "r")
pushBack('"A1\nA2"', f)
pushBackLength(f)
scan(f, "", quote='"')
gives "A1\nA2" on a single line, then whatever was in test.txt.
Rather, the issue is
if (header) {
readLines(file, 1L) # skip over header
and that stops at the embedded newline. The fix is to read the header
again the same way as before.
It seems to me that this is esoteric and the fix could tickle similar
esoteric constructions, so I am only going to put the fix into R-devel
and not the upcoming 2.10.1.
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> g.russ...@eos-solutions.com wrote:
>> Full_Name: George Russell
>> Version: 2.10.0
>> OS: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
>> Submission from: (NULL) (217.111.3.131)
>>
>>
>> The following code (typed into R --vanilla)
>>
>> testString <- '"B1\nB2"\n1\n'
>> con <- textConnection(testString)
>> tab <- read.csv(con,stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
>>
>> produces a data frame with with one row and one column; the name of the
>> column
>> is "B1.B2" (alright so far). However according to
>> print(tab[[1,1]])
>>
>> the value of the entry in the first row and first column is
>>
>> "B2\n1\n"
>>
>> So B2 has somehow got into both the names of the data frame and its entry.
>> Either R is confused or I am. What is going on?
>
> Presumably, read.table is not obeying quotes when removing what it
> thinks is the header line. Another variation is this:
>
>> tab <- read.table(stdin(), head=T)
> 0: "B1
> 0: B2"
> 1: 1
> 2:
>> tab
> B1.B2
> 1 B2"
> 2 1
>
>
> It's somehow connected to the
>
> pushBack(c(lines, lines), file)
>
> bits in readtable.R, but I don't quite get it.
>
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