Hi Everyone, Recently I got puzzled by the function read.table, even though I have used it for a long time.
I have such a file (tmp.txt, 2 rows and 3 columns, with a space among columns): 1 2'-PDE 4 2 3'-PDE 5 if I do: a = read.table("tmp.txt", header = F, quote = "") a V1 V2 V3 1 1 2'-PDE 4 2 2 3'-PDE 5 Everything is fine. However, if I do: a = read.table("tmp.txt", header = F) a V1 V2 V3 1 2 3'-PDE 5 2 1 2'-PDE 4 3 2 3'-PDE 5 I know it is related to the "quote" as the default includes '. But how can it get one more row in the file? Thank you very much for your help in advance! Jun ______________________________________________ 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.