read.table gives idiosyncratic results when the input is formatted
strangely, for example:
read.table(textConnection("a'b\nc'd\n"),header=FALSE,fill=TRUE,sep="",quote="'")
=> "c'd" "a'b" "c'd"
read.table(textConnection("a'b\nc'd\nf'\n'\n"),header=FALSE,fill=TRUE,sep="",quote="'")
=> "f'" "\na" "b" "c'd" "f'" "\n"
Though read.table doesn't specify the syntax of its input precisely, these
results don't seem particularly useful or consistent.
Is there a stricter version of read.table (perhaps in a package) that gives
errors or warnings if it finds quotation marks in the middle of fields or
encounters other such peculiar situations?
Thanks,
-s
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