[R] read.table with special chars

[Marc Noguera]

Thanks Jim,
I've tried that but still no luck. Some other suggestions?

Thanks again
Marc
Jim Lemon wrote:
> On 01/19/2010 07:41 PM, Marc Noguera wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>> I am just starting with R and I have come across a problem which I guess
>> it is easy to solve. I am reading a table with read.table function.
>> This table contains chars which seem to be problematic when reading them
>> such as "'" and "#", if I remove these characters fromt the table by
>> hand the problem disappears. Otherwise, the whole table is not read,
>> since reading stops at the problematic tuple.
>> I have been looking in the ?read.table manual but have not found
>> anything. Is there any option to make R not interpret these characters?
>>
>>     
> Hi Marc,
> Try changing the "quote" argument to "\"" and the comment.char argument 
> to "".
>
> Jim
>
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