Thank you all, I can read the text file but the problem was there is a single quote embedded in the first row of second column. This quote causes the problem
vld<-read.table(text="name prof A '4.5 B "3.2 C 5.5 ",header=TRUE) On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 7:24 PM Anaanthan Pillai <anaanthanpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > data <- read.table(header=TRUE, text=' > name prof > A 4.5 > B 3.2 > C 5.5 > ') > > On 9 Aug 2019, at 8:11 AM, 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
