[R] Using read.table to read file created with read.table and qmethod = "escape"

[Hadley Wickham]

> df <- data.frame(a = "a\"b", v = 4, z = "this is Z")
> write.csv(df, "test.csv", row.names = FALSE, quote = FALSE)
> read.csv("test.csv", quote = "")

Unfortunately my real example is more like:

df <- data.frame(a = "a\"b", v = 4, z = "this is: A, B, C")

so quote = F won't work.

Can write.table and read.table really be so asymmetric?

Hadley

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