The first thing I should point out is that if your data are saved as a text file but aren’t quite in the proper CSV format, then there’s still a pretty good chance that the read.csv() function (or equ...The first thing I should point out is that if your data are saved as a text file but aren’t quite in the proper CSV format, then there’s still a pretty good chance that the read.csv() function (or equivalently, read.table()) will be able to open it. Because I told R to expect * to be used as the quoting character instead of "; to look for tabs (which we write like this: \t) instead of commas, and to skip the first 8 lines of the file, it’s basically loaded the right data.
