trouble with exporting a data.frame with " (quotation mark) in some columns into a tab delimited file, then importing the file
with quote="" I get an error, Yvan
write.table(db, file = "db.txt", row.names = FALSE, quote="", sep = "\t")
Show Traceback Rerun with Debug Errorin write.table(db, file = "db.txt", row.names = FALSE, quote = "", : invalid 'quote' specification Le 14/09/2025 ? 21:13, Ivan Krylov a ?crit?:
? Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:39:58 +0200 Patrick Giraudoux<patrick.giraudoux at univ-fcomte.fr> ?????:
write.table(db, file = "db.txt", row.names = FALSE, quote = FALSE,
sep = "\t")
db_import<-read.delim("db.txt")
Since write.table() had been called with quote=FALSE, you'll need to read the file with quote="" to prevent read.delim() from interpreting the quotes.