[R] Errors reading data file?

[Uwe Ligges]

Chris Bergstresser wrote:

> Hi all --
> 
>    I tried loading a data file with the following command:
> 
>  > data = read.table("filename.txt", header = TRUE, sep = ",")
> 
>    This appeared to work fine, except it silently skipped 400 records 
> (out of 1200).  It turns out, some of the text fields included quotes, 
> and I needed to use 'quote = ""'.
>    Why wasn't there an error message?  Is there some way to enable one?
> 
> -- Chris
> 
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Can you please specify a very short example (5 lines or so) that you 
think fails without appropriate error message?

Uwe Ligges