read.table() does not have a "text" argument, so maybe you need to go back and go through a tutorial or two to learn R basics (e.g. about function calls and function arguments ?) See ?read.table (of course)
Cheers, Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 5:11 PM Val <valkr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to red data where single and double quotes are embedded > in some of the fields and prevented to read the data. As an example > please see below. > > vld<-read.table(text="name prof > A '4.5 > B "3.2 > C 5.5 ",header=TRUE) > > Error in read.table(text = "name prof \n A '4.5 \n B > 3.2 \n C 5.5 ", : > incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'text' > > Is there a way how to read this data and gt the following output > name prof > 1 A 4.5 > 2 B 3.2 > 3 C 5.5 > > Thank you inadvertence > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
