On Sunday 16 December 2007, Adrian Dusa wrote: > Dear all, > > [...] > > Given these examples, I have two questions: > 1. What is the correct syntax to import the R-exported file > 2. What can I do to prevent these situations from happening? > (besides whipping the data entry person :), I am referring to R procedures > to detect and correct such things)
Trying to answer question number 2: would the usage of qmethod="double" argument in write.table solve the problem *in general*? What are the situations that specifically need escaping the quote character? Thank you, Adrian -- Adrian Dusa Romanian Social Data Archive 1, Schitu Magureanu Bd 050025 Bucharest sector 5 Romania Tel./Fax: +40 21 3126618 \ +40 21 3120210 / int.101 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.