Message-ID: <20250916001332.6a242fe1@Tarkus>
Date: 2025-09-15T21:13:32Z
From: Ivan Krylov
Subject: trouble with exporting a data.frame with " (quotation mark) in some columns into a tab delimited file, then importing the file
In-Reply-To: <afa799bc-20a9-447c-b180-a8b112612b7a@univ-fcomte.fr>
? Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:31:43 +0200
Patrick Giraudoux <patrick.giraudoux at univ-fcomte.fr> ?????:
> Errorin write.table(db, file = "db.txt", row.names = FALSE, quote =
> "", : invalid 'quote' specification
write.table() and read.table()/read.delim() are a bit asymmetric. In
this case, write.table() needs quote = FALSE, but read.delim() needs
quote = "":
write.table(db, "db.txt", row.names = FALSE, quote = FALSE, sep = "\t")
db_import <- read.delim("db.txt", quote = "")
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Best regards,
Ivan