[R] read.delim()

[Doran, Harold]

Thank you, Phil. Unfortunately, there are quotes used properly elsewhere. 

----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Spector <spector at stat.berkeley.edu>
To: Doran, Harold
Cc: r-help at r-project.org <r-help at r-project.org>
Sent: Wed Jul 28 18:29:32 2010
Subject: Re: [R] read.delim()

Harold -
    If there aren't any true quoted fields in the file, you 
could  pass the quote="" option to read.delim().

 					- Phil Spector
 					 Statistical Computing Facility
 					 Department of Statistics
 					 UC Berkeley
 					 spector at stat.berkeley.edu

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Doran, Harold wrote:

> I am reading in a very large file with names in it and R is truncating the number of rows it reads in. The separator in this file is a pipe '|' and so I use
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> dat <- read.delim('pathToMyFile', header= TRUE, sep='|')
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> It turns out that it is reading up to row 61145 and stopping and I think I see why, but am not sure of the best solution to this problem. I see the name of the person in the next row has a quote in it, such as:
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> Joe Sm"ith
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> I *think* this is causing a problem in the read in. In fact, whenever I use
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> ?  tail(dat)
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> ?  or dat[61145,]
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> R crashes.
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> But, it doesn't crash when I use head(dat) or index any other row. I could change my raw data and manually delete this ". However, is there another solution within the args of read.delim that would be useful as a solution such that I would not have to manually change my raw data
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> Harold
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