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% File src/library/utils/man/count.fields.Rd
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% File src/library/utils/man/count.fields.Rd
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% Part of the R package, http://www.R-project.org
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% Part of the R package, http://www.R-project.org
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% Copyright 1995-2007 R Core Team
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% Copyright 1995-2013 R Core Team
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% Distributed under GPL 2 or later
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% Distributed under GPL 2 or later
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\name{count.fields}
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\name{count.fields}
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\title{Count the Number of Fields per Line}
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\title{Count the Number of Fields per Line}
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\usage{
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\usage{
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\details{
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\details{
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  This used to be used by \code{\link{read.table}} and can still be
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  This used to be used by \code{\link{read.table}} and can still be
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  useful in discovering problems in reading a file by that function.
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  useful in discovering problems in reading a file by that function.
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  For the handling of comments, see \code{\link{scan}}.
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  For the handling of comments, see \code{\link{scan}}.
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  Consistent with \code{\link{scan}}, \code{count.fields} allows
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  quoted strings to contain newline characters.  In such a case the
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  starting line will have the field count recorded as \code{NA}, and
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  the ending line will include the count of all fields from the
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  beginning of the record.
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}
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}
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\value{
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\value{
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  A vector with the numbers of fields found.
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  A vector with the numbers of fields found.
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}
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}
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\seealso{
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\seealso{