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[Val]

Thank you Jeff! That was so easy command.

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 11:06 PM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 using gmail.com> wrote:
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> I stand corrected!
>
> Bert Gunter
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> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it."
> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
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> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 7:11 PM Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
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>> Val 1
>> Bert 0
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>> On August 8, 2019 5:22:13 PM PDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 using gmail.com> wrote:
>> >read.table() does not have a "text" argument, so maybe you need to go
>> >back
>> >and go through a tutorial or two to learn R basics (e.g. about function
>> >calls and function arguments ?)
>> >See ?read.table  (of course)
>> >
>> >Cheers,
>> >
>> >Bert Gunter
>> >
>> >"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
>> >and
>> >sticking things into it."
>> >-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>> >
>> >
>> >On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 5:11 PM 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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