reading in a text file with a SUB (1a) (Control-Z) character in R on Windows

Question

Following on from my query last week reading badly formed csv in R - mismatched quotes, these same CSV files also have embedded control characters such as the ASCII Substitu

Answer 1

I also ran into this problem when I used read.csv with a csv file that contained the SUB or CTRL-Z in the middle of the file.

Solved it with the readr package (if your file is comma separated)

library(readr)
read_csv("h3.txt")

If you have a ; as a separator, then use:

library(readr)
read_csv2("h3.txt")