On Aug 5, 2013, at 15:31 , Ben Bolker wrote: > "Why did read.table stop reading my file" is a pretty FAQ, e.g. > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/297406/focus=297409 > > (I could come up with a lot more examples if someone wanted). > > The answer is typically "check for spurious comment characters and > unmatched quotation marks"
Or, diddle comment.char=/quote= argument settings in cases where the commenting/quoting features themselves were unexpected. > > Does this seem FAQ-worthy? Should I e-mail the FAQ maintainer and suggest > it? Sure, as long as we never change the numbering of FAQ 7.31... -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
