On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Robert M. Flight <rfligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Say I have a tab-delimited table I want to read into R. What should I > expect to happen if some of the entries contain the character " ' "? I > thought it would read the file fine, but that is not what happens. > Instead, all the values in between two " ' "s get read into one field, > and things are just seriously messed up. Is this a bug, and besides > removing the offending characters, is there a fix?
Yes, use argument quote="\"" or even quote="" to disable quoting altogether. See ?read.table Peter ______________________________________________ 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.
