Well, for this particular program I am using 2.1.1, though I normally use 2.3.0. Long story about why the old version is used, but I must for this particular program.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:26 PM > To: Doran, Harold > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R] read.csv issue > > On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > > Set allowEscapes = FALSE when reading. See the help page > for more details. > > > > There is perhaps an argument for changing the default for > allowEscapes > > under read.csv, especially as people have now changed that for > > comment.char (in R-devel). > > Oops, it was already changed in 2.2.0. What version of R is this? > > > On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Doran, Harold 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > [email protected] mailing list > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
