OMG.

I think it uses comment character # as default in the argument.

comment.char = "#"

How do I turn it off?

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Berend Hasselman <bhh@xs4all.nl> wrote:

>
> On 26-03-2012, at 08:16, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
>
> > Why does the output in the following say 2 and not 6?
> >
> >> count.fields(textConnection("LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,,1971,8,2
> > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Bhutan,1971,6,1
> > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,China,1971,17,1
> > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,China,1971,33,1
> > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,HongKong,1971,16,2
> > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,HongKong,1971,17,1
> > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,HongKong,1971,22,1
> > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,HongKong,1971,49,1
> > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Kazakhstan,1971,20,1
> > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Kazakhstan,1971,27,1
> > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Kazakhstan,1971,33,1
> > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Kazakhstan,1973,15,1
> > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Romania-Europe,1971,10,1
> > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Romania-Europe,1973,4,1
> > + LL1532Ap,ABC# Depot-A+,Sanchez-America,1973,9,1
> > + LL1532An,ABC# Depot-A-,,1971,8,2"),sep=",")
> > [1] 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
> >>
> >
>
>
> Have you done
>
> ?count.fields
>
> and read what it says about the argument "sep" and the default?
>
> So if a comma is the separator what value would you give sep?
>
> Berend
>
>
>

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

