R help - Nov 2009 - R splits character fields in a csv file

I download a csv extract from a database and use read.csv to read it
from R and when there are large character fields with embedded blanks,
slashes etc. - R often  sees one line as two lines (or more).

I verfied with readLines that an embedded blank in a character field
causes a spurious new line to be seen.

I am sure this problem has beem seen before - and would appreciate any
help in reading such files.

Could you post a reproducible example? I don't seem to have any
problems with this.

  -Peter Ehlers

analyst41 at hotmail.com wrote:
> I download a csv extract from a database and use read.csv to read it
> from R and when there are large character fields with embedded blanks,
> slashes etc. - R often  sees one line as two lines (or more).
> 
> I verfied with readLines that an embedded blank in a character field
> causes a spurious new line to be seen.
> 
> I am sure this problem has beem seen before - and would appreciate any
> help in reading such files.
> 
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