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Anita
Anita

Reputation: 789

R: read.table with quotation marks

I've got the following structure, saved in a txt.file:

" punc "
x nounsg x
" punc "
" punc "
artikel nounsg "
" punc "

I would like to read this txt.file into R, so I've tried this with 

read.table("pos.txt",header=F, sep=" ")

but this yield in R:

"tpunc\t"
x\tnounsg\tx
"\tpunc\t
"\tpunc\t
artikel\tnounsg\tartikel
"\tpunc\t"

I would like to have a matrix with 3 columns and 6 rows instead. How could this be done?

When I add fill = TRUE and use sep = "\t", then I get:

 \tpunc\t             x                  \tpunc\t
 \tpunc\t             artikel            \tpunc\t

So there is some information lost

> readLines("pos.txt")[1:2]
[1] "\"\tpunc\t\""             "artikel\tnounsg\tartikel"

Upvotes: 3

Views: 14587

Answers (1)

B.Shankar
B.Shankar

Reputation: 1281

See if this is what you want:

 data <- read.table(file = "pos.txt", quote = "")

Quotes are set to " and ' by default for read.table. From your question, I think you are trying to treat them as ordinary data elements. So, set the quote to empty character.

Upvotes: 9

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