R help - Feb 2014 - Handling special characters in reading and writing to CSV

Hi All,


I have some data with different special characters, newline character, and
different language characters in a CSV file like `~!@#$%^&*|
()-_+={[}]|\:;""'<,>.?/
in data, while I am trying to read this CSV and trying to do calculations I
am not able to get this data as there in single cell. I found something
like RFC 4180 format can help to solve this problem.



If anyone can give suggestion related to handling these special characters
it will be help full for me



Thanks in advance,

D V Kiran Kumar

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On Feb 4, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Venkata Kirankumar wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 
> I have some data with different special characters, newline character, and
> different language characters in a CSV file like `~!@#$%^&*|
> ()-_+={[}]|\:;""'<,>.?/
> in data, while I am trying to read this CSV and trying to do calculations I
> am not able to get this data as there in single cell. I found something
> like RFC 4180 format can help to solve this problem.
> 
> 
> 
> If anyone can give suggestion related to handling these special characters
> it will be help full for me
> 
I'm having a difficult time understanding your expectations and thedata
situation. If it's a "csv file",  then how can all three of
<comma>, <single-quote>, and <double-quote> be properly
distinguished when they are also part of the data?


You might consider using readLines (from base) or read.fwf (from the utils
package)


> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> D V Kiran Kumar
> 
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