title: How to treat thousands delimiter when importing csv file in R
body: <p>I have an issue with the dataset I want to import in R. Basically I got some economic data into excel (MacOS) and then saved the first sheet as a csv file.</p>
  
  <p>However, when I import it: French_data&lt;- read.csv("/Users/lillumultipass/Dropbox/WORK/Economics/French data.csv",header=T,fill=T)</p>
  
  <p>I get something like this (there are 6 columns of data): </p>
  
  <p>1     56\377695   ; 33\377713   ; 56\377836   ; 60\377339   ; 190\377418   ; 333\377382<br>
  2     57\377686   ; 33\377546   ; 57\377933   ; 60\377201   ; 190\377083   ; 334\377998<br>
  3     58\377296   ; 33\377393   ; 60\377121   ; 62\377610   ; 191\377775   ; 338\377832 </p>
  
  <p>So, I have ";" where I should have nothing and instead of the blank space that separates thousands, I have \377 (i.e., the first figure is 56 695). I have tried different combinations of dec and sep but to no avail.</p>
  
  <p>I know this should be very simple, but I am stuck here...
  thanks!</p>