On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:21:18PM -0500, Robert M. Flight wrote:
> Say I have a tab-delimited table I want to read into R. What should I
> expect to happen if some of the entries contain the character " ' "? I
> thought it would read the file fine, but that is not what happens.
> Instead, all the
On 2011-02-15 09:25, Peter Langfelder wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Robert M. Flight wrote:
Say I have a tab-delimited table I want to read into R. What should I
expect to happen if some of the entries contain the character " ' "? I
thought it would read the file fine, but that is not
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Robert M. Flight wrote:
> Say I have a tab-delimited table I want to read into R. What should I
> expect to happen if some of the entries contain the character " ' "? I
> thought it would read the file fine, but that is not what happens.
> Instead, all the values i
Check out the arguments for read.table especially 'quote'
you probably want quote='' to suppress the special meaning of quote.
You might also need comment.char in the future.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Robert M. Flight wrote:
> Say I have a tab-delimited table I want to read into R. What
Say I have a tab-delimited table I want to read into R. What should I
expect to happen if some of the entries contain the character " ' "? I
thought it would read the file fine, but that is not what happens.
Instead, all the values in between two " ' "s get read into one field,
and things are just
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