R help - Jul 2008 - 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 the data 
per respondent. So first the data for respondent 1, then the data for 
respondent 2, et cetera.
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. 
However, whenever it encounters the  symbol it interprets it as a quit 
command! So, rather than continuing, R wants to quit on me.
How can I make R see the  symbol as just a particular symbol and NOT as 
the command to q()?

Thanks, Roger

ps. I hope the symbol is readable in the various email programs

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 is no reason for interpreting 'q()' as a quit command.  Are
you 'source'ing the data?  So an example of both the script and the
data are required to understand the problem you are trying to solve.

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Roger Leenders <r.t.a.j.leenders at
rug.nl> wrote:
>
> 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 the data per respondent. So
> first the data for respondent 1, then the data for respondent 2, et cetera.
> 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. However,
> whenever it encounters the   symbol it interprets it as a quit command! So,
> rather than continuing, R wants to quit on me.
> How can I make R see the   symbol as just a particular symbol and NOT as
the
> command to q()?
>
> Thanks, Roger
>
> ps. I hope the symbol is readable in the various email programs
>
> ______________________________________________
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> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>


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Jim Holtman
Cincinnati, OH
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What is the problem you are trying to solve?

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 into the GUI (assuming Windows). In an earlier version,
I had a similar case with Chinese characters that closed the application when
pasted. The error was corrected within hours by B.Ripley.

Dieter