[R] read

[Peter Langfelder]

I would remove the quotes using sub, something like

# Read the file as text lines
text = readLines(con = file(yourFileName))
# Remove the offending quotes
text = gsub("'|\"", "", text)
# Concatenate and turn into a data frame
concat = paste(text, collapse = "\n")
df = read.table(text = concat, ...) # Change arguments as needed

HTH,

Peter

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 5:41 PM Val <valkremk using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you  all, I can read the text file but the problem was there is
> a single quote embedded  in  the first row of second column. This
> quote causes the problem
>
> vld<-read.table(text="name prof
>   A      '4.5
>   B       "3.2
>   C       5.5 ",header=TRUE)
>
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 7:24 PM Anaanthan Pillai
> <anaanthanpillai using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > data <- read.table(header=TRUE, text='
> >  name prof
> >   A  4.5
> >   B  3.2
> >   C  5.5
> >  ')
> > > On 9 Aug 2019, at 8:11 AM, Val <valkremk using gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am trying to red data where single and double quotes are embedded
> > > in some of the fields and prevented to read the data.   As an example
> > > please see below.
> > >
> > > vld<-read.table(text="name prof
> > >  A      '4.5
> > >  B       "3.2
> > >  C       5.5 ",header=TRUE)
> > >
> > > Error in read.table(text = "name prof \n  A      '4.5    \n  B
> > > 3.2     \n  C       5.5 ",  :
> > >  incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'text'
> > >
> > > Is there a way how to  read this data and gt the following output
> > >  name prof
> > > 1    A  4.5
> > > 2    B  3.2
> > > 3    C  5.5
> > >
> > > Thank you inadvertence
> > >
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