[R] Accessing table elements and escape characters

[Dieter Menne]

sachinthaka.abeywardana wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 

Better open it with NotePad++, show all non-printing characters. Sometimes,
a ,"","" instead of ,, creeps in with Excel.

Dieter

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