[R] read.csv to read output of system()?

Marianne Promberger marianne.promberger at kcl.ac.uk
Sat Dec 12 18:16:40 CET 2009


David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> 12-Dec-09 17:12:
>  > txt <- gsub("( [A-Za-z]+),","\\1;",readLines("file.csv"))
>  > read.csv(textConnection(txt), header=TRUE)
>    var1                           var2  var3
> 1  one                            two three
> 2  one this is a comment;with commas. three

Wonderful, thanks a lot!

Marianne


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Marianne Promberger PhD, King's College London
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R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
Ubuntu 9.04




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