Treat "#" as a regular character when reading data
I'm pretty sure this was asked before, but due to a certain social media app that I got drowned in unrelated search results.
So the dataset I'm importing contains the actual "#" as in Apartment # 404, and I would like to save the character if possible, but R thinks it's the end of the line or something. First it will bomb at the first occurrence, then I set fill = TRUE and now it just ignores the rest of the line after that.
How do I instruct R to treat # as regular characters?
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Paul ledin
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If you are not using the "#" character as a comment character in your data, you can use
read.table(..., comment.char="")
This should treat "#" like any other character.
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MrFlick
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