Hi Venkata, That example reads into R fine for me. I copied and saved it as tmp.csv and simply read it in with
dat <- read.csv("tmp.csv") which gave me a data.frame with one row and 78 columns as expected. This worked in three different environments (linux, mac, windows), and with different versions of R. Does it not work for you? If not please post the results of running sessionInfo() so we can see what version of R etc. you are using. Best, Ista On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Venkata Kirankumar <kiran4u2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Ista, > I copied my data below > > UNIQUEID,FINDINGSID,ORGNUMRES,STNUMRES,CONVRES,VISITDY,ORGCHARRES,STCHARRES,NOMINALDAY,NOMINALDATE,MEASRMTDAY,MEASRMTDATE,INPUTDATE,NEOPLASMNAME,TUMORCLASSNAME,CATDOMAIN,CATDID,SPECIMENTYP,SPTDID,PCDOMAIN,USUBJID,PCDID,TESTDOMAIN,TSTDID,ORRESUNIT,RESDID,SUBJECTSID,STDRESUNIT,STDRDID,CONVRESUNIT,COVRDID,CUSTOMFIELD5,GRPLABEL,GRPNUMBER,SEX,SEXDID,TRIALGROUPSID,SPECIMENLOC,SPECIMENCOND,SPECIMENCOND1,SPECIMENCOND2,SPECIMENCOND3,SEVERITY,COMM,ASPECT,CAUSEOFDEATH,DERIVEFLG,PHASENAME,PHASENAMEDID,ENTITY,ENTITYDID,SECONDARYFLAG,CUSTOMFIELD0,CUSTOMFIELD4,CUSTOMFIELD6,CUSTOMFIELD9,SOURCE,RESCATEGORY,OFSPSEX,OFFSPNUM,FILEID,ANALYTEID,ANALYTEDID,DATETIME,ELTM,ENDY,NOMDAYOFPHASE,OFSPSEXDID,PLTIMEPOINT,STATUSFLAG,ANABIOREGION,TESTMETHOD,FINDLOC,CUSTOMFIELD8,TIMESLOTDESC,TIMESLOTCODE,PTPTN,TPTNUM > 3073004,3073004,,37.800000000000000,37.800000000000000,61,© ® ™ ℠ ℗ ₳ ฿ ₵ ¢ > ₡ ₢ ₠ $ ₫ ৳ ₯ € ƒ ₣ ₲ ₴ ₭ ₺ ℳ ₥ ₦ ₧ ₱ ₰ £ ₹ ₨ ₪ ₸ ₮ ₩ ¥ ៛,© ® ™ ℠ ℗ ₳ ฿ ₵ ¢ > ₡ ₢ ₠ $ ₫ ৳ ₯ € ƒ ₣ ₲ ₴ ₭ ₺ ℳ ₥ ₦ ₧ ₱ ₰ £ ₹ ₨ ₪ ₸ ₮ ₩ ¥ > ៛,61,,,,,,,,,,,BW,"apcu102881`~!@#$%^&*()-_+={[}]|:;""'<,>.?/",16082,© ® ™ ℠ > ℗ ₳ ฿ ₵ ¢ ₡ ₢ ₠ $ ₫ ৳ ₯ € ƒ ₣ ₲ ₴ ₭ ₺ ℳ ₥ ₦ ₧ ₱ ₰ £ ₹ ₨ ₪ ₸ ₮ ₩ ¥ ៛,,© ® ™ ℠ > ℗ ₳ ฿ ₵ ¢ ₡ ₢ ₠ $ ₫ ৳ ₯ € ƒ ₣ ₲ ₴ ₭ ₺ ℳ ₥ ₦ ₧ ₱ ₰ £ ₹ ₨ ₪ ₸ ₮ ₩ ¥ > ៛,45741,38733,© ® ™ ℠ ℗ ₳ ฿ ₵ ¢ ₡ ₢ ₠ $ ₫ ৳ ₯ € ƒ ₣ ₲ ₴ ₭ ₺ ℳ ₥ ₦ ₧ ₱ ₰ £ ₹ > ₨ ₪ ₸ ₮ ₩ ¥ ៛,,© ® ™ ℠ ℗ ₳ ฿ ₵ ¢ ₡ ₢ ₠ $ ₫ ৳ ₯ € ƒ ₣ ₲ ₴ ₭ ₺ ℳ ₥ ₦ ₧ ₱ ₰ £ ₹ > ₨ ₪ ₸ ₮ ₩ ¥ > ៛,,"USB102881`~!@#$%^&*()-_+={[}]|:;""'<,>.?/","SC51`~!@#$%^&*()-_+={[}]|:;""'<,>.?/: > SET 1€ é í ñ ó ú ü ¿ á é í ó ú ü > ñ","SC51`~!@#$%^&*()-_+={[}]|:;""'<,>.?/",M,42133,1445,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,2631,,,,,,,,,A,,,,,,,© > ® ™ ℠ ℗ ₳ ฿ ₵ ¢ ₡ ₢ ₠ $ ₫ ৳ ₯ € ƒ ₣ ₲ ₴ ₭ ₺ ℳ ₥ ₦ ₧ ₱ ₰ £ ₹ ₨ ₪ ₸ ₮ ₩ ¥ ៛, > > Thanks & Regards, > D V Kiran Kumar > > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Kiran, >> >> Please post a reproducible example, either by pasting a sample of >> comma separated values into you message, posting a .csv file somewhere >> where we can download it. Without an example all we can do is guess >> what your problem might be. >> >> Best, >> Ista >> >> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Venkata Kirankumar >> <kiran4u2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi David, >> > >> > >> > In CSV RFC 4180 format if any ' or " character is there then character >> > will >> > go with escape character so CSV will distinguish properly. >> > >> > >> > >> > I will try with read.fwf once because with redline I am facing same >> > issue. >> > >> > Thanks & Regards, >> > D V Kiran Kumar. >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:14 AM, David Winsemius >> > <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> On Feb 4, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Venkata Kirankumar wrote: >> >> >> >> > Hi All, >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > I have some data with different special characters, newline >> >> > character, >> >> and >> >> > different language characters in a CSV file like `~!@#$%^&*| >> >> > ()-_+={[}]|\:;""'<,>.?/ >> >> > in data, while I am trying to read this CSV and trying to do >> >> calculations I >> >> > am not able to get this data as there in single cell. I found >> >> > something >> >> > like RFC 4180 format can help to solve this problem. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > If anyone can give suggestion related to handling these special >> >> characters >> >> > it will be help full for me >> >> > >> >> >> >> I'm having a difficult time understanding your expectations and thedata >> >> situation. If it's a "csv file", then how can all three of <comma>, >> >> <single-quote>, and <double-quote> be properly distinguished when they >> >> are >> >> also part of the data? >> >> >> >> >> >> You might consider using readLines (from base) or read.fwf (from the >> >> utils >> >> package) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > Thanks in advance, >> >> > >> >> > D V Kiran Kumar >> >> > >> >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> > >> >> > ______________________________________________ >> >> > 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. >> >> >> >> David Winsemius >> >> Alameda, CA, USA >> >> >> >> >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > 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. > > ______________________________________________ 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.