Thanks Jim, I've tried that but still no luck. Some other suggestions? Thanks again Marc Jim Lemon wrote: > On 01/19/2010 07:41 PM, Marc Noguera wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I am just starting with R and I have come across a problem which I guess >> it is easy to solve. I am reading a table with read.table function. >> This table contains chars which seem to be problematic when reading them >> such as "'" and "#", if I remove these characters fromt the table by >> hand the problem disappears. Otherwise, the whole table is not read, >> since reading stops at the problematic tuple. >> I have been looking in the ?read.table manual but have not found >> anything. Is there any option to make R not interpret these characters? >> >> > Hi Marc, > Try changing the "quote" argument to "\"" and the comment.char argument > to "". > > Jim > > . > >
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