How to write '"' to a csv with the default setting of write.csv?
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:32 PM, milton ruser <milton.ruser at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Peng, May be write.table(...,quote=F) bests milton
Would this cause some trouble when filed is missing, etc.? Although I don't have a concrete example, I think that it might happen. So I prefer to have quote=T. I have looking for a way so that the resulted csv file can be read by excel. http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/CSV/CSV01.htm#FileFormat
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
Please see the following example. I can not write '"' to a csv file successfully. Could somebody let me if it is possible to write '"' to a csv file with the default setting of write.csv? my_home$ Rscript main_quote.R
x=rbind(
+ ? "\"A\"" + ? , "\"B\"" + ? )
x
? ? [,1] [1,] "\"A\"" [2,] "\"B\""
write.csv(x, "main_quote.csv", row.names=F)
my_home$ cat main_quote.csv "V1" """A""" """B"""
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