From pdalgd at gmail.com  Mon Aug  5 15:53:58 2013
From: pdalgd at gmail.com (peter dalgaard)
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 15:53:58 +0200
Subject: [Rd] proposal for new FAQ entry?
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On Aug 5, 2013, at 15:31 , Ben Bolker wrote:

> "Why did read.table stop reading my file" is a pretty FAQ, e.g.
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/297406/focus=297409
> 
> (I could come up with a lot more examples if someone wanted).
> 
> The answer is typically "check for spurious comment characters and
> unmatched quotation marks"

Or, diddle comment.char=/quote=  argument settings in cases where the commenting/quoting features themselves were unexpected.

> 
> Does this seem FAQ-worthy? Should I e-mail the FAQ maintainer and suggest
> it?

Sure, as long as we never change the numbering of FAQ 7.31...

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[Rd] proposal for new FAQ entry?
peter dalgaard