[R] Accessing table elements and escape characters

[sachinthaka.abeywardana at allianz.com.au]

Hi All,

Are there any escape characters that I should be aware of when using
table.read? I don't have any '#' characters in this table.
I get the error:
 A<-read.table("P:/temp.csv",header=TRUE, sep=",");
Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines,
na.strings,  :
  line 11018 did not have 85 elements

but when i open it in excel everything is fine.

If I use the fill=TRUE parameter I don't get the error BUT I do end up with
weird (and wrong) stuff when I try to access SOME elements.
eg.
A[2,"ACT_PREFIX"]
[1]
Levels:  C

should have been "T"... does this have anything to do with the fact that
the separator is a comma, and new line is not included in sep?

thanks in advance,
Sachin

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