[R] Problem reading mixed CSV file

[jim holtman]

What do you mean by Mixed?  If a field has a comma, then it is
supposed be to enclosed in quotes.  You could preprocess the file
looking for cases where there are more fields than there there are
supposed to be, and if they are always in the same place, you could
enclose them in quotes and then reprocess.  You would really have to
show what the file looks like for the different "mixed" cases to get a
good answer to your question.  And of course, R can do it, if we knew
what it was we are supposed to do.

So at least  provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible
code and data.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Ashish Agarwal
<ashish.agarwala at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having trouble reading this CSV file in R. There are six attributes
> that I need to read  - CVar1, CVar2, Location, Year, Nvar3, Nvar4. Can
> somebody help in reading this file?
> On line 10 it has city and state separated by comma. I had been a user of
> SAS where I can use different format to read in for this line. Can I do
> this in R too?
>
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Jim Holtman
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