read.csv has parameters sep, quote and dec You have to get these right to represent the structure of you input file.
> On 14.04.2020, at 11:28, Sam Charya via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > > > > Hello Dear R Community, > I would ask a little bit of help from you please:I have a dataset, which is > in a CSV file – I have read it into R as follows: > V11 tropical fruit"2 whole milk"3 pip fruit"4 > other vegetables"5 whole milk"6 rolls/buns" > The issue is: the data set in Csv file also appears with the quotation marks > “. I can’t get rid of the quotation marks. I want to do it in R. The Quotes > only appear at the end of the string. The dataset has many rows – this is > just a copy. My intention is to be able to get rid of the quotes and then > want to separate the strings with a ‘/’. i.e. rolls/buns should be rolls in > one column and buns in another. > I know this is something very simple I am lacking – but if you could please > show me how to do this? If someone could throw some light please. I read the > data in with a simple read.csv statement: > calc <- read.csv("Fight.csv", stringsAsFactors = F, header = F) str(x) > Output: > str(calc)'data.frame': 38765 obs. of 1 variable: $ V1: chr > "tropical fruit\"" "whole milk\"" "pip fruit\"" "other vegetables\"" ... > Many Thanks in advance for your help. > Kind Regards, > Sam. > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.