I am reading in a very large file with names in it and R is truncating the number of rows it reads in. The separator in this file is a pipe '|' and so I use

dat <- read.delim('pathToMyFile', header= TRUE, sep='|')

It turns out that it is reading up to row 61145 and stopping and I think I see why, but am not sure of the best solution to this problem. I see the name of the person in the next row has a quote in it, such as:

Joe Sm"ith

I *think* this is causing a problem in the read in. In fact, whenever I use


Ų  tail(dat)

Ų  or dat[61145,]

R crashes.

But, it doesn't crash when I use head(dat) or index any other row. I could change my raw data and manually delete this ". However, is there another solution within the args of read.delim that would be useful as a solution such that I would not have to manually change my raw data

Harold

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