[R] trouble with exporting a data.frame with " (quotation mark) in some columns into a tab delimited file, then importing the file

[Patrick Giraudoux]

with quote="" I get an error, Yvan

> write.table(db, file = "db.txt", row.names = FALSE, quote="", sep = "\t")
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Errorin write.table(db, file = "db.txt", row.names = FALSE, quote = "", 
: invalid 'quote' specification


Le 14/09/2025 à 21:13, Ivan Krylov a écrit :
> В Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:39:58 +0200
> Patrick Giraudoux<patrick.giraudoux using univ-fcomte.fr> пишет:
>
>> write.table(db, file = "db.txt", row.names = FALSE, quote = FALSE,
>> sep = "\t")
>>
>> db_import<-read.delim("db.txt")
> Since write.table() had been called with quote=FALSE, you'll need to
> read the file with quote="" to prevent read.delim() from interpreting
> the quotes.
>