OK, thanks to you and Carlos. I see how this works. Now, I just want 1
"\" (miktex doesn't work with \\). I tried tinkering around with what
you have for the replacement portion of the function. Is it possible to
only have only one \?
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From: jim holtman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:10 PM
To: Doran, Harold
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [R] read.csv issue
Try 'gsub'
> y
schid sch_name
1 331-802-7081 School One
2 464-551-7357 School Two
3 388-517-7627 School Three & Four
4 388-517-4394 School Five
> levels(y$sch_name) <- gsub("&", " \\\\&", levels(y$sch_name))
> y
schid sch_name
1 331-802-7081 School One
2 464-551-7357 School Two
3 388-517-7627 School Three \\& Four
4 388-517-4394 School Five
>
On 8/16/06, Doran, Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm trying to read in some data from a .csv format and
have come across
the following issue. Here is a simple example for
replication
# A sample .csv format
schid,sch_name
331-802-7081,School One
464-551-7357,School Two
388-517-7627,School Three \& Four
388-517-4394,School Five
Note the third line includes the \ character. However,
when I read the
data in I get
> read.csv(file.choose())
schid sch_name
1 331-802-7081 School One
2 464-551-7357 School Two
3 388-517-7627 School Three & Four
4 388-517-4394 School Five
It turns out to be very important to read in this
character as I have a
program that loops through a data set and Sweave's about
30,000 files.
The variable sch_name gets dropped into the tex file
using
\Sexpr{tmp$sch_name}. However, if there is an &, the
latex file won't
compile properly. So, what I need is for the data to be
read in as
schid sch_name
1 331-802-7081 School One
2 464-551-7357 School Two
3 388-517-7627 School Three \& Four
4 388-517-4394 School Five
I am obligated by a client to include the & in the
school name, so
eliminating that isn't an option. I thought maybe
comment.char or quote
would be what I needed, but they didn't resolve the
issue. I'm certain
I'm missing something simple, I just can't see it.
Any thoughts?
Harold
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