Full_Name: Richard L Lozes Version: 2.1.1 OS: Win XP Submission from: (NULL) (69.107.18.35)
"#" appearing in a quoted string in input causes further input of that line to be ignored. Can be cured by escaping (i.e., "\#"), but in big data sets it is onerous to find. # should not be "special" inside a quoted string. Here is a small input file. Read it with read.csv(). Title1, Title2, cHdr1, cHdr2, cHdr3 "xyz","abc",1.0,2.0,3.0 "xyy","ab#c",4.0,5.0,6.0 "zyx","abc",7.0,8.0,9.0 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
