[R] read.table and double quotes in strings

2007-12-16 Thread Adrian Dusa
Dear all, Some very wise data entry person gave me about an hour of a headache, trying to find out why a 2000x500 dataframe won't be read into R. After much trial and error, I pinpointed the problem to an accidentally inserted double quote into a string variable (some comments from an open

Re: [R] read.table and double quotes in strings

2007-12-16 Thread Adrian Dusa
On Sunday 16 December 2007, Adrian Dusa wrote: Dear all, [...] Given these examples, I have two questions: 1. What is the correct syntax to import the R-exported file 2. What can I do to prevent these situations from happening? (besides whipping the data entry person :), I am referring to