[R] R interprets symbol as q()

R2.7.1, WinXP Hi, My question is probably easy to answer, but I can't seem to solve it myself. I need to read in a large number of datasets that were generated by another (old) software program. Each data file contains a bunch of additional code generated by the external software. It lists

Re: [R] R interprets symbol as q()

PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. It would be nice to see at least a subset of the data you are reading. I would assume that if you are using 'read.table' to read in the data, then there

Re: [R] R interprets symbol as q()

Roger Leenders r.t.a.j.leenders at rug.nl writes: After the data for the final respondent, the file contains a , followed by some zeroes. R now needs to read the data until the  symbol. The symbol is not readable in my viewer, but try the following: put it into the clipboard, and paste it