[R] typo in read.table and count.fields?

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Claudio Agostinelli <mail-list at linaria.dst.unive.it> writes:

> It seems that in read.table and count.fields there is a typo in the quote
> parameter.
> 
> read.table(file, header = FALSE, sep = "", quote = "\"'", dec = ".",
>            row.names, col.names, as.is = FALSE, na.strings = "NA",
>            colClasses = NA, nrows = -1,
>            skip = 0, check.names = TRUE, fill = !blank.lines.skip,
>            strip.white = FALSE, blank.lines.skip = TRUE,
>            comment.char = "#")
> 
> presents in R-devel   .tar.gz file of today and in R-1.6-2
> 
> > args(read.table)
> function (file, header = FALSE, sep = "", quote = "\"'", dec = ".",
>     row.names, col.names, as.is = FALSE, na.strings = "NA", colClasses =
> NA,
>     nrows = -1, skip = 0, check.names = TRUE, fill = !blank.lines.skip,
>     strip.white = FALSE, blank.lines.skip = TRUE, comment.char = "#")
> NULL

Ehh.... what typo? quote is a string consisting of the two possible
quoting characters, " and ', and to display such a string, the " needs
to be escaped within "...".

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