[R] Error in reading subset of data from CSV file

[Christofer Bogaso]

Thanks Jim. But my data is like that and I have to live with that. Any
idea on workaround. Thanks,

On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Christofer,
> You have embedded commas in your data structure. This is guaranteed to
> mess up a CSV read.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Christofer Bogaso
> <bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I was trying to read a subset of Data from a CSV file using below code
>> as example :
>>
>> library(sqldf)
>>
>> Dat = structure(list(`col 1` = c(133261L, 133261L, 133262L, 133262L
>> ), `col 2` = structure(1:4, .Label = c("aaa1", "aaa2", "bbb1, bbb",
>> "bbb3, bbb"), class = "factor"), `col 3` = c(10.59, 10.56, 10.59,
>> 10.56), `col 4` = c(10.59, 10.56, 10.59, 10.56), `col 5` = c(10.59,
>> 10.56, 10.59, 10.56), `col 6` = structure(c(1L, 2L, 1L, 2L), .Label =
>> c("04-Jul-16",
>> "05-Jul-16"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("col 1", "col 2",
>> "col 3", "col 4", "col 5", "col 6"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA,
>> -4L))
>> Dat
>>
>> write.csv(Dat, "Dat.csv", quote = FALSE, row.names = FALSE)
>>
>> ReadName = '133261'
>> read.csv.sql("Dat.csv", sql = "select * from file where 'col 1' = ReadName")
>>
>> Loading required package: tcltk
>> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  :
>>   line 1 did not have 7 elements
>>
>> This code generates above Error. Could you please help me with a
>> pointer where something went wrong? My actual CSV file is quite huge
>> so I cant read it as whole. However basic structure of my original
>> file is similar as above "Dat"
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
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