[R] read table not reading lines containing single quotes

[Philipp Pagel]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 04:09:57PM -0400, Vidhu Choudhary wrote:


> kegg<-read.table("c:/IDs.tab",header =TRUE,quote= "'", sep="\t") *

> *It doesnot read from Alzheimer's disease. Due the single qoutes in it.

You have almost given the answer yourself: you are declaring the single
quote to be a quotation character in your read.table call. Either turn
quoting off entirely (quote="") or restrict it to double quotes (quote
="\"")

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	Philipp

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