[R] A bug in the function "scan"?

[Peter Kleiweg]

Dilip N. Thadani skriver...

> I issue the command
>  scan(file="c:/tmp.txt",what="",sep=",")
> Read 3 items
> [1] "ab"      "5"       "bc,cd,5"
> 
> >
> 
> Why is it not reading 5 items?  If i remove the apostrophe in the third item
> (ie. b'c => bc) then scan reads all 5 items as I would expect it.


Use:

    scan(file="t",what="",sep=",",quote="")

Read 5 items
[1] "ab"  "5"   "b'c" "cd"  "5"

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Peter Kleiweg
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