On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Liviu Andronic <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all > What is the preferred spreadsheet-like x-delimited data format for use > with R? Should I prefer tab-, comma-, space- or > some_other_delimitor-seprated data? > > I'm asking this because I've been once bitten by CSV data containing ` > ' ' (apostrophe) symbols that R couldn't easily digest. Probably no > the best approach, I've eventually inspected the document and removed > the apostrophes manually. But I'd rather avoid such issues in the > future. >
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