R help - Nov 2013 - A warning message generated from 'read.csv'

Hi,

I'm using R version 3.0.2. While I executed the following command

filedata <- read.csv(file, header=TRUE, colClasses="character")


I got the warning message:

In scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines,  ... :
EOF within quoted string

I'd like to know what this means? And how shall I fix the problem?

Thank you for your help.

Best,
Chia-Chieh Lin
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Pretty much exactly what it says.  Now, keep in mind that a "warning"
message
does not indicate a failure or error.  Presumably you successfully read your
file into "filedata."   What it's saying is that the <EOL>
character exists
inside some character string in one of the elements of your file.  Whether
that matters is of course dependent on what your data are and what you're
doing with it.


Chia-Chieh Lin-2 wrote
> I'm using R version 3.0.2. While I executed the following command
> 
> filedata <- read.csv(file, header=TRUE,
colClasses="character")
> I got the warning message:
> 
> In scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, ?... :
> EOF within quoted string
> 
> I'd like to know what this means? And how shall I fix the problem?
> 
> 
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