Reading Tab Delimited Data in to R

Question

I am trying to read a large tab delimited file in to R.

First I tried this:

data <- read.table(\"data.csv\", sep=\"\\t\")

But it

Answer 1

x <- paste("'",floor(runif(10,0,10)),"'",sep="")
x

 [1] "'7'" "'3'" "'0'" "'3'" "'9'" "'1'" "'4'" "'8'" "'5'" "'8'"

as.numeric(gsub("'", "",x))

 [1] 7 3 0 3 9 1 4 8 5 8