Assuming your actual case is a file containing those characters, your example R string has to quote them. However, it seems like you want to disable interpreting quotes while you read this file.
vld<-read.table(text= "name prof A '4.5 B \"3.2 C 5.5 " ,header=TRUE,quote="") (The escape character isn't really there.) On August 8, 2019 5:40:08 PM PDT, Val <valkr...@gmail.com> wrote: >Thank you all, I can read the text file but the problem was there is >a single quote embedded in the first row of second column. This >quote causes the problem > >vld<-read.table(text="name prof > A '4.5 > B "3.2 > C 5.5 ",header=TRUE) > >On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 7:24 PM Anaanthan Pillai ><anaanthanpil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> data <- read.table(header=TRUE, text=' >> name prof >> A 4.5 >> B 3.2 >> C 5.5 >> ') >> > On 9 Aug 2019, at 8:11 AM, Val <valkr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I am trying to red data where single and double quotes are embedded >> > in some of the fields and prevented to read the data. As an >example >> > please see below. >> > >> > vld<-read.table(text="name prof >> > A '4.5 >> > B "3.2 >> > C 5.5 ",header=TRUE) >> > >> > Error in read.table(text = "name prof \n A '4.5 \n B >> > 3.2 \n C 5.5 ", : >> > incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'text' >> > >> > Is there a way how to read this data and gt the following output >> > name prof >> > 1 A 4.5 >> > 2 B 3.2 >> > 3 C 5.5 >> > >> > Thank you inadvertence >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> > 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. >> > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.