David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> 12-Dec-09 17:12: > > txt <- gsub("( [A-Za-z]+),","\\1;",readLines("file.csv")) > > read.csv(textConnection(txt), header=TRUE) > var1 var2 var3 > 1 one two three > 2 one this is a comment;with commas. three
Wonderful, thanks a lot! Marianne -- Marianne Promberger PhD, King's College London http://promberger.info R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) Ubuntu 9.04 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.