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Dear friends, I stumbled into beheaviour of read.delim which I would consider a bug or at least an inconsistency that should be improved upon. Recently we had to work with data that used "", two double quotes, as symbol to start and end character input. Essentially the data looked like this data.csv ======== V1, V2, V3 ""data"", 3, """" The

Hello, I am getting error :- #<CSV::MalformedCSVError: Unclosed quoted field on line 1892.>. I have following code :- -------------------------------------------------- @parsed_file = CSV.open("#{RAILS_ROOT}/private/sales_report_files/#{@file_folder}/#{@sub_file_folder}/#{@file_name.filename}",''r'',:col_sep =>?\t) @parsed_file.each_with_index do |row, index|

Hello, While assisting a fellow R-helper off list, I narrowed down an issue he was having to the following behavior of type.convert, called through read.table. This is using R 2.10.1, if newer versions don't exhibit this behavior, apologies. # generates numeric vector > type.convert(c("123.42", "NA")) [1] 123.42 NA # generates a numeric vector, notice the