Error while importing text files using read.table: EOF within quoted string

Question

I tried to import a text file company.txt in r using read.table and using tab as a delimiter. But everytime it says eof within quoted string. I have tried fill=true , quote = "\"'" but of no use. Here is what I entered:

> company <- read.table("company.txt",header=TRUE,sep = "\t",quote = "\"'",fill = TRUE,stringsAsFactors = FALSE, )
Warning message:
In scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec = dec,  :
  EOF within quoted string

Answer 1

your quote argument seems odd to me. Why dont you use this:

quote="'"

(If ' is your quote) You dont need to escape it. Only if you use " as quote, then it would be:

quote="\""

But nevertheless it would be helpful if you could upload your text file or a least a snippet of it