[R] read.table understands comment field and ignores text

[Jack T.]

Hi I'm trying to import a large csv file without quotes around each field. 
This creates some problems when there are "#" characters in certain strings
as R understands its comment field and ignores the rest of the line.

Here's an example:

var1, var2, var3, var4
one, two, three, four

  Use this in R to get off clipboard:

  read.table("clipboard", header=F, sep=",",na.strings=c("NULL", ""),
dec=".", strip.white=TRUE, fill=T)

Now try it with this table:

var1, var2, var3, var4
one#, two, three, four

Notice R ignores everything after the # character.  Is this something that
can be fixed?




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