read.csv warning 'EOF within quoted string' prevents complete reading of file

I'm a new-ish R user and thought I'd post this in case it helps anyone else. I was trying to read in data from a text file (separated with commas) that included a few Spanish characters and it took me forever to figure it out. I knew I needed to use UTF-8 encoding, set the header arg to TRUE, and that I need to set the sep arguemnt to ",", but then I still got hang ups. After reading this post I tried setting the fill arg to TRUE, but then got the same "EOF within quoted string" which I was able to fix in the same manner as above. My successful read.table looks like this:

target <- read.table("target2.txt", fill=TRUE, header=TRUE, quote="", sep=",", encoding="UTF-8")

The result has Spanish language characters and same dims I had originally, so I'm calling it a success! Thanks all!

You need to disable quoting.

cit <- read.csv("citations.CSV", quote = "", 
                 row.names = NULL, 
                 stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

str(cit)
## 'data.frame':    112543 obs. of  13 variables:
##  $ row.names    : chr  "10.2307/675394" "10.2307/30007362" "10.2307/4254931" "10.2307/20537934" ...
##  $ id           : chr  "10.2307/675394\t" "10.2307/30007362\t" "10.2307/4254931\t" "10.2307/20537934\t" ...
##  $ doi          : chr  "Archaeological Inference and Inductive Confirmation\t" "Sound and Sense in Cath Almaine\t" "Oak Galls Preserved by the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79_ and Their Probable Use\t" "The Arts Four Thousand Years Ago\t" ...
##  $ title        : chr  "Bruce D. Smith\t" "Tomás Ó Cathasaigh\t" "Hiram G. Larew\t" "\t" ...
##  $ author       : chr  "American Anthropologist\t" "Ériu\t" "Economic Botany\t" "The Illustrated Magazine of Art\t" ...
##  $ journaltitle : chr  "79\t" "54\t" "41\t" "1\t" ...
##  $ volume       : chr  "3\t" "\t" "1\t" "3\t" ...
##  $ issue        : chr  "1977-09-01T00:00:00Z\t" "2004-01-01T00:00:00Z\t" "1987-01-01T00:00:00Z\t" "1853-01-01T00:00:00Z\t" ...
##  $ pubdate      : chr  "pp. 598-617\t" "pp. 41-47\t" "pp. 33-40\t" "pp. 171-172\t" ...
##  $ pagerange    : chr  "American Anthropological Association\tWiley\t" "Royal Irish Academy\t" "New York Botanical Garden Press\tSpringer\t" "\t" ...
##  $ publisher    : chr  "fla\t" "fla\t" "fla\t" "fla\t" ...
##  $ type         : logi  NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
##  $ reviewed.work: logi  NA NA NA NA NA NA ...

I think is because of this kind of lines (check "Thorn" and "Minus")

 readLines("citations.CSV")[82]
[1] "10.2307/3642839,10.2307/3642839\t,\"Thorn\" and \"Minus\" in Hieroglyphic Luvian Orthography\t,H. Craig Melchert\t,Anatolian Studies\t,38\t,\t,1988-01-01T00:00:00Z\t,pp. 29-42\t,British Institute at Ankara\t,fla\t,\t,"