On Apr 8, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
df <- data.frame(a = "a\"b", v = 4, z = "this is Z") write.csv(df, "test.csv", row.names = FALSE, quote = FALSE) read.csv("test.csv", quote = "")Unfortunately my real example is more like: df <- data.frame(a = "a\"b", v = 4, z = "this is: A, B, C") so quote = F won't work. Can write.table and read.table really be so asymmetric?
write() is a wrapper for cat() and read() is a wrapper for scan() so the question should really be can cat() and scan() be so asymmetric. Looking at their help pages, I would say that at least some degree of asymmetry is plausible. Perhaps using save() with load() , or dput() with dget(), which are pairings that promise to have symmetry?
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