R devel - Aug 2013 - proposal for new FAQ entry?

"Why did read.table stop reading my file" is a pretty FAQ, e.g.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/297406/focus=297409

(I could come up with a lot more examples if someone wanted).

The answer is typically "check for spurious comment characters and
unmatched quotation marks"

Does this seem FAQ-worthy? Should I e-mail the FAQ maintainer and suggest
it?

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On Aug 5, 2013, at 15:31 , Ben Bolker wrote:
> "Why did read.table stop reading my file" is a pretty FAQ, e.g.
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/297406/focus=297409
> 
> (I could come up with a lot more examples if someone wanted).
> 
> The answer is typically "check for spurious comment characters and
> unmatched quotation marks"
Or, diddle comment.char=/quote=  argument settings in cases where the
commenting/quoting features themselves were unexpected.
> 
> Does this seem FAQ-worthy? Should I e-mail the FAQ maintainer and suggest
> it?
Sure, as long as we never change the numbering of FAQ 7.31...

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On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:53 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Does this seem FAQ-worthy? Should I e-mail the FAQ maintainer and
suggest
>> it?
>
> Sure, as long as we never change the numbering of FAQ 7.31...
>
 Not even to FAQ 7.31+1e-15 ?

Barry