reading apostrophs #2
Description
Apostrophes produce errors while reading in data.
Rob found a solution, that needs to be implemented.
mail of Rob 26. January 2018
The answer is here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9620155/how-to-read-a-csv-file-containing-apostrophes-into-r
Apparently read.table (and others) have a quote argument which defaults to
quote = " " ' " # I have added spaces for clarity
There are two solutions:
quote = """
or
quote = "" # or quote = NULL
The first accepts just the double-quote (") as the start of a string, the second accepts no quoted strings, which might be safer?
Also it has the argument
comment.char="#"
which indicates a comment. I am not sure anyone is likely to use this symbol, but maybe adding
comment.char = ""
to the read.table command would also be safe?