[R] read

[Jeff Newmiller]

Assuming your actual case is a file containing those characters, your example R string has to quote them. However, it seems like you want to disable interpreting quotes while you read this file.

vld<-read.table(text=
"name prof
  A      '4.5
  B       \"3.2
  C       5.5 "
,header=TRUE,quote="")

(The escape character isn't really there.)

On August 8, 2019 5:40:08 PM PDT, Val <valkremk using gmail.com> wrote:
>Thank you  all, I can read the text file but the problem was there is
>a single quote embedded  in  the first row of second column. This
>quote causes the problem
>
>vld<-read.table(text="name prof
>  A      '4.5
>  B       "3.2
>  C       5.5 ",header=TRUE)
>
>On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 7:24 PM Anaanthan Pillai
><anaanthanpillai using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> data <- read.table(header=TRUE, text='
>>  name prof
>>   A  4.5
>>   B  3.2
>>   C  5.5
>>  ')
>> > On 9 Aug 2019, at 8:11 AM, Val <valkremk using gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I am trying to red data where single and double quotes are embedded
>> > in some of the fields and prevented to read the data.   As an
>example
>> > please see below.
>> >
>> > vld<-read.table(text="name prof
>> >  A      '4.5
>> >  B       "3.2
>> >  C       5.5 ",header=TRUE)
>> >
>> > Error in read.table(text = "name prof \n  A      '4.5    \n  B
>> > 3.2     \n  C       5.5 ",  :
>> >  incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'text'
>> >
>> > Is there a way how to  read this data and gt the following output
>> >  name prof
>> > 1    A  4.5
>> > 2    B  3.2
>> > 3    C  5.5
>> >
>> > Thank you inadvertence
>> >
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