[R] read.table() Issue

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Aug 1 20:48:52 CEST 2012


On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, William Dunlap wrote:

> An unmatched quote can make read.table run very slowly when there are lots
> of lines in the file.  E.g.,

Bill,

   Yes. Turns out that there was no closing quote on a changed header. I
found this by an error message on one data file; the other data file didn't
generate an error for me to see.

Thanks very much,

Rich



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