I'm trying to read in some data from a .csv format and have come across
the following issue. Here is a simple example for replication

# A sample .csv format
schid,sch_name
331-802-7081,School One
464-551-7357,School Two
388-517-7627,School Three \& Four
388-517-4394,School Five

Note the third line includes the \ character. However, when I read the
data in I get

> read.csv(file.choose())
         schid              sch_name
1 331-802-7081            School One
2 464-551-7357            School Two
3 388-517-7627 School Three & Four
4 388-517-4394           School Five

It turns out to be very important to read in this character as I have a
program that loops through a data set and Sweave's about 30,000 files.
The variable sch_name gets dropped into the tex file using
\Sexpr{tmp$sch_name}. However, if there is an &, the latex file won't
compile properly. So, what I need is for the data to be read in as

         schid              sch_name
1 331-802-7081            School One
2 464-551-7357            School Two
3 388-517-7627 School Three \& Four
4 388-517-4394           School Five

I am obligated by a client to include the & in the school name, so
eliminating that isn't an option. I thought maybe comment.char or quote
would be what I needed, but they didn't resolve the issue. I'm certain
I'm missing something simple, I just can't see it.

Any thoughts?

Harold



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