Hi Kiran,
Please post a reproducible example, either by pasting a sample of
comma separated values into you message, posting a .csv file somewhere
where we can download it. Without an example all we can do is guess
what your problem might be.
Best,
Ista
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Venkata Kirankumar
<kiran4u2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
>
> In CSV RFC 4180 format if any ' or " character is there then character will
> go with escape character so CSV will distinguish properly.
>
>
>
> I will try with read.fwf once because with redline I am facing same issue.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> D V Kiran Kumar.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:14 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>> >
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