Dear all, I would like to run the follwing command in R 0.62.2: all.scanned <- scan ("all.txt", what= character (), sep= ";") Now my Problem is that the character fields separated by ; also contain tabs and returns which I would like to conserve. The tabs are properly translated into \t but the returns are taken to be field separators too. When I change the returns into \n in the text file they become \\n after being scanned. Is there some way around this? By the way, are the r-lists archived? Thanks and regards, -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lorenz Gygax LGygax at amath.unizh.ch; room: 36-L-40 Department of Applied Mathematics University of Zuerich-Irchel Winterthurerstr. 190; CH-8057 Zurich voice: 41-1-635-58-52 fax: 41-1-635-57-05 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._