On Feb 4, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Venkata Kirankumar wrote: > Hi All, > > > I have some data with different special characters, newline character, and > different language characters in a CSV file like `~!@#$%^&*| > ()-_+={[}]|\:;""'<,>.?/ > in data, while I am trying to read this CSV and trying to do calculations I > am not able to get this data as there in single cell. I found something > like RFC 4180 format can help to solve this problem. > > > > If anyone can give suggestion related to handling these special characters > it will be help full for me >
I'm having a difficult time understanding your expectations and thedata situation. If it's a "csv file", then how can all three of <comma>, <single-quote>, and <double-quote> be properly distinguished when they are also part of the data? You might consider using readLines (from base) or read.fwf (from the utils package) > > > Thanks in advance, > > D V Kiran Kumar > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ 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.