[R] problem with read.table

[Pedro Rodrigues]

The option quote states the character that encloses strings in your
file. for instance if you had a file with

"Name"	"Height"
"Tree1"	100.3

you should call read.table with quote="\"".

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 10:25, Vincent MUTEAUD wrote:
> That's allright, thanks a lot.
> What is the signification of quote exactly?
> 
> 
> A 10:08 19/07/2004 +0100, Pedro Rodrigues a écrit :
> >If your file looks like attached, you should call
> >
> >read.table("temp.txt", header=TRUE, sep="\t", skip=3, quote="")
> >
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 09:43, Vincent MUTEAUD wrote:
> > > Thanks for your quick answer but I don't see the escape character "\n" in
> > > "myFile" I see it on the result of my R command.
> > >
> > > This is an extract of myFile:
> > >
> > > # Capsis 4.1.3 generated file - Mon Jul 19 10:39:56 CEST 2004
> > >
> > >
> > > varName
> > > weighting       id      date    x       y       z       calculated
> > > observed
> > > Date de
> > > 
> > débourrement    0.0     tree1   1998/365a       1.5     1.5     0.0     158
> > >      162
> > > Diamètre du
> > > tronc       0.0     tree1   0/0a    1.5     1.5     0.0
> > > 0.0062422542832791805   0.007
> > > Diamètre du
> > > tronc       0.0     tree1   1998/365a       1.5     1.5     0.0
> > > 0.010381871834397316    0.011
> > > Hauteur totale de
> > > l'arbre       0.0     tree1   0/0a    1.5     1.5     0.0     1.0     0
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't know why "\n" appears in R.
> > >
> > >
> > > A 10:40 19/07/2004 +0200, asemeria at cramont.it a écrit :
> > >
> > > >You should'nt see the escape character "\n" on "myfile".
> > > >Try deleting with a text editor "\n"
> > > >A.S.
> > > >
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