[R] preferred x-delimited data format for R?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Nutter, Benjamin <NutterB at ccf.org> wrote:
> I run into that problem frequently. I can usually circumvent it by using
> the
>  quote = "\""
> Argument.  The default is quote = "\"'"  which uses the double and
> single quote as quoting symbols.  If you change it to "\"" it will read
> the single quotes like regular text.
>
This solves my problem. It seems that the apostrophe issue affects
comma- (CSV) as well as tab-delimited data files, so it would probably
be wise to start using
quote = "\""

whenever I suspect the presence of apostrophes.

Regards
Liviu