I would like to suggest adding argument 'allowEscapes' to
read.table(..., allowEscapes=TRUE) and pass it to its three calls to
scan(..., allowEscapes=allowEscapes).
Rd (from ?scan):
\item{allowEscapes}{logical. Should C-style escapes such as '\n' be
processed (the default) or read verbatim? Note that if not within
quotes these could be interpreted as a delimiter (but not as a comment
character).}
Currently, it is not possible to use read.table() to read tab-delimited
files with elements containing the string "\t" (not a TAB), i.e. the two
characters "\" and "t". Example:
<file>
A B
1 a\tb
2 c\td
</file>
<readable>
A<tab>B
1<tab>a\tb
2<tab>c\td
</readable>
Try to read the above with
scan(stdin(), what=character(0), sep="\t", allowEscapes=FALSE)
and this
scan(stdin(), what=character(0), sep="\t", allowEscapes=TRUE)
Cheers
Henrik Bengtsson
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