[R] read

Bert Gunter
Fri, 09 Aug 2019 00:22:13 -0000

read.table() does not have a "text" argument, so maybe you need to go
back
and go through a tutorial or two to learn R basics (e.g. about function
calls and function arguments ?)
See ?read.table  (of course)

Cheers,

Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 5:11 PM Val <valkremk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to red data where single and double quotes are embedded
> in some of the fields and prevented to read the data.   As an example
> please see below.
>
> vld<-read.table(text="name prof
>   A      '4.5
>   B       "3.2
>   C       5.5 ",header=TRUE)
>
> Error in read.table(text = "name prof \n  A      '4.5    \n  B
> 3.2     \n  C       5.5 ",  :
>   incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'text'
>
> Is there a way how to  read this data and gt the following output
>   name prof
> 1    A  4.5
> 2    B  3.2
> 3    C  5.5
>
> Thank you inadvertence
>
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