I would have thought that a csv file written out by Excel would have looked
like this for your data:
ADS GY Equity, ,ALV GY Equity,
Date, Px Last,Date , Px Last
07/02/04," 41,395 ",07/01/31 ," 130,234"
07/02/05," 42,134
Dear r-help users,
I have the following simple problem: Reading data from a file. The
file is a .txt file exported ("save as...") from Excel (see below for
an example). The Excel file consists of two header rows (first row
consists of ticker symbols of stocks, the second row consists of
co
