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From: scanrikpr at sbcglobal.net (scanrikpr@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:12:11 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Rd] # symbol in input data (PR#8296)
Message-ID: <20051110051211.64B8D265B9@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

Full_Name: Richard L Lozes
Version: 2.1.1
OS: Win XP
Submission from: (NULL) (69.107.18.35)


"#" appearing in a quoted string in input causes further input of that line to
be ignored.
Can be cured by escaping (i.e., "\#"), but in big data sets it is onerous to
find.

# should not be "special" inside a quoted string.

Here is a small input file. Read it with read.csv().

Title1, Title2, cHdr1, cHdr2, cHdr3
"xyz","abc",1.0,2.0,3.0
"xyy","ab#c",4.0,5.0,6.0
"zyx","abc",7.0,8.0,9.0



[Rd] # symbol in input data (PR#8296)
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