The option quote states the character that encloses strings in your file. for instance if you had a file with
"Name" "Height" "Tree1" 100.3 you should call read.table with quote="\"". On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 10:25, Vincent MUTEAUD wrote: > That's allright, thanks a lot. > What is the signification of quote exactly? > > > A 10:08 19/07/2004 +0100, Pedro Rodrigues a écrit : > >If your file looks like attached, you should call > > > >read.table("temp.txt", header=TRUE, sep="\t", skip=3, quote="") > > > > > > > >On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 09:43, Vincent MUTEAUD wrote: > > > Thanks for your quick answer but I don't see the escape character "\n" in > > > "myFile" I see it on the result of my R command. > > > > > > This is an extract of myFile: > > > > > > # Capsis 4.1.3 generated file - Mon Jul 19 10:39:56 CEST 2004 > > > > > > > > > varName > > > weighting id date x y z calculated > > > observed > > > Date de > > > > > débourrement 0.0 tree1 1998/365a 1.5 1.5 0.0 158 > > > 162 > > > Diamètre du > > > tronc 0.0 tree1 0/0a 1.5 1.5 0.0 > > > 0.0062422542832791805 0.007 > > > Diamètre du > > > tronc 0.0 tree1 1998/365a 1.5 1.5 0.0 > > > 0.010381871834397316 0.011 > > > Hauteur totale de > > > l'arbre 0.0 tree1 0/0a 1.5 1.5 0.0 1.0 0 > > > > > > > > > > > > I don't know why "\n" appears in R. > > > > > > > > > A 10:40 19/07/2004 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > > > > > >You should'nt see the escape character "\n" on "myfile". > > > >Try deleting with a text editor "\n" > > > >A.S. > > > > > > > >---------------------------- > > > > > > > >Alessandro Semeria > > > >Models and Simulations Laboratory > > > >Montecatini Environmental Research Center (Edison Group), > > > >Via Ciro Menotti 48, > > > >48023 Marina di Ravenna (RA), Italy > > > >Tel. +39 544 536811 > > > >Fax. +39 544 538663 > > > >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html