[R] rows missing after dataset loaded to R

[Rnewbie]

Many thanks to all of you
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Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> 
> Another situation would be if you have comment characters in strings that
> are intended to be content.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Greg Snow<Greg.Snow at imail.org> wrote:
>> Some programs quote everything to be "safe", others only quote when
>> needed.  The only case that I know of that read.table and friends require
>> quotes for is when a separator is inside of a string, for example if you
>> are using spaces as the separator and have some names with spaces in them
>> (e.g. "North Dakota"), without the quotes that would be seen as 2 fields,
>> with the quotes it is a single field.  If the coma (,) is the separator
>> and you have names (e.g. "Snow, Greg") then you would need the quotes.
>>  If you don't have any cases of the separators other than where they are
>> separating fields, then the quotes are probably not needed.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> --
>> Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
>> Statistical Data Center
>> Intermountain Healthcare
>> greg.snow at imail.org
>> 801.408.8111
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> Subject: Re: [R] rows missing after dataset loaded to R
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for the reply. I checked the rows and it was the
>>> unbalanced " quote marks in some of the rows that caused the problem.
>>> Once I
>>> disabled quoting altogether, the problem is solved.
>>>
>>> I have one more basic question.  I disabled quoting when loading the
>>> file to
>>> R, and all the columns consisting of characters with or without
>>> quotation
>>> marks displayed normally. What does quoting actually do in R?
>>>
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