[R] A bug in the function "scan"?

[Dilip N. Thadani]

R version 1.2
OS.  Windows NT, service pack 6.0

Here is what I have in a text file called tmp.txt

ab,5,b'c,cd,5

i.e. the file has only one line of data (to keep things simple)

I issue the command
 scan(file="c:/tmp.txt",what="",sep=",")
Read 3 items
[1] "ab"      "5"       "bc,cd,5"

>

Why is it not reading 5 items?  If i remove the apostrophe in the third item
(ie. b'c => bc) then scan reads all 5 items as I would expect it.

Is this a bug, or am I missing something about how apostrophe's are treated?

Thanks in advance,

regards

Dilip


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