From maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch  Fri Aug 13 16:43:48 1999
From: maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch (maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:43:48 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: scan() + error interferes with count.fields() in some cases (PR#248)
Message-ID: <199908131543.RAA28991@pubhealth.ku.dk>

As just mentioned on R-devel,
and originally reported (somewhat less concisely) by Adrian Trapletti,

This code

 write(c(paste("\"", LETTERS[1:3],"\"", sep=""),1:3), nc=3)
 scan("data")         # gives error as it should
 count.fields("data") # will be wrong
 count.fields("data") # is now ok : 3 3

gives (in 0.64.2 and in 0.65 snapshot)

    >  write(c(paste("\"", LETTERS[1:3],"\"", sep=""),1:3), nc=3)
    >  scan("data")         # gives error as it should
    Error: "scan" expected a real got ""A""
    >  count.fields("data") # will be wrong
    [1] 4 3
    >  count.fields("data") # is now ok : 3 3
    [1] 3 3

>From my experiments, the problem seems to be the leading `` " '' ,
since the following also fails  {and btw mixes up ESS ...}

  write(c("\"A", "B", "C",1:3), nc=3)
  scan("data")         # gives error as it should
  count.fields("data") # 3 3
  count.fields("data") # >> Error in count.fields..: string terminated by nl..

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scan() + error interferes with count.fields() in some cases (PR#248)
maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch