[R] read

Jeff Newmiller
Fri, 09 Aug 2019 02:11:29 -0000

Val 1
Bert 0

On August 8, 2019 5:22:13 PM PDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>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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