From jpalmucci at machineinsight.com  Sat Aug 14 06:27:26 2004
From: jpalmucci at machineinsight.com (jpalmucci@machineinsight.com)
Date: Sat Aug 14 06:27:30 2004
Subject: [Rd] write.table doesn't quote column names properly (PR#7171)
Message-ID: <20040814042726.9DFBF10EB9@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

Full_Name: Jeff Palmucci
Version: trunk
OS: Windows
Submission from: (NULL) (207.180.176.235)


write.table doesn't quote the column names using qmethod.

Here is the diff of the fix with revision 30658

svn diff write.table.R
Index: write.table.R
===================================================================
--- write.table.R	(revision 30658)
+++ write.table.R	(working copy)
@@ -76,21 +76,23 @@
         stop(paste("argument", sQuote("file"),
                    "must be a character string or connection"))
 
+        
+    qstring <-                          # quoted embedded quote string
+        switch(qmethod,
+               "escape" = '\\\\"',
+               "double" = '""')
+
     if(!is.null(col.names)) {
 	if(append)
 	    warning("appending column names to file")
 	if(!is.null(quote))
-	    col.names <- paste("\"", col.names, "\"", sep = "")
+	    col.names <- paste("\"", gsub('"', qstring, col.names), "\"", sep = "")
         writeLines(paste(col.names, collapse = sep), file, sep = eol)
     }
 
     if (NROW(x) == 0)
         return(invisible(x))
-    
-    qstring <-                          # quoted embedded quote string
-        switch(qmethod,
-               "escape" = '\\\\"',
-               "double" = '""')
+
     for(i in quote)
 	x[, i] <- paste('"', gsub('"', qstring, as.character(x[, i])),
                         '"', sep = "")


[Rd] write.table doesn't quote column names properly (PR#7171)
jpalmucci@machineinsight.com