r - Creating a data frame from a CSV file with embedded lists -


i'm still rather new r , may have gotten concept of data frames messed up.

but have csv file in following format:

id;year;title;authors;keywords; 

where authors , keywords supposed list of strings. e.g.

1;2013;towards dynamic non-obtrusive health monitoring based on soa , cloud;mohammed serhani, abdelghani benharret, erlabi badidi;e-health, diseases, monitoring, prevention, soa, cloud, platform, m-tech;

is there way read csv file r data frame columns authors , keywords built lists of lists? , require me format csv file in specific way?

reading csv following options

articles <- read.csv(file="ls.csv",head=true,sep=";",stringsasfactors=f) 

yields authors colum list containing character instances. i'm trying achieve getting list of characters in each field in authors column.

are saying file contains 5 variables (id, year, title, authors, keywords) separated semicolons? then, definition, it's not csv file! remember csv stands comma-separated values. screwed naming such.

you can read arbitrarily-delimited data using read.table:

articles <- read.table("ls.csv", header=true, sep=";", stringsasfactors=false) 

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