The problem is that you have an unbalanced quote (') in your input . you need to specifiy quote = '' in read.table:
> tempTxt <- "103272;Canara Robeco Fortune '94;30.07;30.07;30.75;02-Apr-2007 + " > read.table(textConnection(tempTxt), sep=';', quote = '') V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 1 103272 Canara Robeco Fortune '94 30.07 30.07 30.75 02-Apr-2007 The quote is '94 in the string. On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Santosh Srinivas <santosh.srini...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear R-Group, > > I am getting this error message "incomplete final line found by > readTableHeader" in the code below. > > It seems to me that the error message is because of quote in the text data. > Is there any easy way to handle this? Or should I do a substitute. > > >> tempTxt <- "100589;Canara Robeco Expo-Income > Plan;18.92;18.92;19.35;02-Apr-2007 > + " >> read.table(textConnection(tempTxt), sep=';') > V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 > 1 100589 Canara Robeco Expo-Income Plan 18.92 18.92 19.35 02-Apr-2007 >> tempTxt <- "103272;Canara Robeco Fortune '94;30.07;30.07;30.75;02-Apr-2007 > + " >> read.table(textConnection(tempTxt), sep=';') > Error in read.table(textConnection(tempTxt), sep = ";") : > incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'tempTxt' > > Thanks, > Santosh > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.