On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:20 AM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: > You were using read.csv and not read.table. The following seems to work > with using a separator that will probably not appear in the text: > >> df <- data.frame(a = "a\"b", v = 4, z = "this is: A, B, C") >> write.table(df, "test.csv", row.names = FALSE, quote = FALSE, sep='\x01')
Perhaps it wasn't clear from my problem statement, but I already have files saved using read.table. And they took about 12 hours to create, so I'd rather not have to resave them all. I just can't believe there is no way to read them in! Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.
