Re: [R] preferred x-delimited data format for R?

2010-10-24 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Nutter, Benjamin nutt...@ccf.org wrote: I run into that problem frequently. I can usually circumvent it by using the  quote = \ Argument.  The default is quote = \'  which uses the double and single quote as quoting symbols.  If you change it to \ it will read

[R] preferred x-delimited data format for R?

2010-10-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all What is the preferred spreadsheet-like x-delimited data format for use with R? Should I prefer tab-, comma-, space- or some_other_delimitor-seprated data? I'm asking this because I've been once bitten by CSV data containing ` ' ' (apostrophe) symbols that R couldn't easily digest.

Re: [R] preferred x-delimited data format for R?

2010-10-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all What is the preferred spreadsheet-like x-delimited data format for use with R? Should I prefer tab-, comma-, space- or some_other_delimitor-seprated data? I'm asking this because I've been once bitten by