[R] read.table -unexpected truncation of rows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Maneesh wrote:

> Hi Dawn,
> I had some similar problems, if I remember correctly I had apostrophe
> characters like this:  '  in some text fields those and quotes " seem to
> always be an issue when dealing with databases and table reading...

Yes, Dawn has confirmed in a private exchange (ca 200m away) that was the
case.

Can I remind people of the R Data Import/Export Manual, which points to
quote="" in this case, as does ?read.table.

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