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...ng in input causes further input of that line to be ignored. Can be cured by escaping (i.e., "\#"), but in big data sets it is onerous to find. # should not be "special" inside a quoted string. Here is a small input file. Read it with read.csv(). Title1, Title2, cHdr1, cHdr2, cHdr3 "xyz","abc",1.0,2.0,3.0 "xyy","ab#c",4.0,5.0,6.0 "zyx","abc",7.0,8.0,9.0