On 2011-02-15 09:25, Peter Langfelder wrote:
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.
Proving once again that it's a pretty good idea to check the
help pages (where the 'quote' argument is well defined)
before jumping to 'bug' conclusions.
Do also consider read.delim() for tab-separated files.
Peter Ehlers
See ?read.table
Peter
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