[R] Problem reading a CSV

[Doran, Harold]

Why are you not using read.csv()? 

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> Subject: [R] Problem reading a CSV
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a CSV file where each row has at least 20 columns and 
> some rows have up to 30 columns of data. When I use the command,
> 
> Pathways<-read.table('MetaCycSample3.csv',sep=',',header=FALSE
> ,quote='"')
> 
> anything past the 21st column gets kicked down to a new row. 
> How can I fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Nina
> 
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