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[Bert Gunter]

I stand corrected!

Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 7:11 PM Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>
wrote:

> Val 1
> Bert 0
>
> On August 8, 2019 5:22:13 PM PDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 using gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >read.table() does not have a "text" argument, so maybe you need to go
> >back
> >and go through a tutorial or two to learn R basics (e.g. about function
> >calls and function arguments ?)
> >See ?read.table  (of course)
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Bert Gunter
> >
> >"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
> >and
> >sticking things into it."
> >-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
> >
> >
> >On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 5:11 PM 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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