title: R not reading ampersand from .txt file with read.table()
body: <p>I'm attempting to read a .txt file with tab-delimited values. The first row are column names followed by the data set. An example of a column name would be: "HSC 1998 M&amp;E-G".</p>
  
  <p>When R reads the .txt file with the command:
  Demo &lt;- read.table(demo.txt, header=TRUE, sep="\t") </p>
  
  <p>The result is a column headers that have lost their special characters ( ,&amp;,-):
   "HSC.1998.M.E.G"</p>
  
  <p>How do I retain the space/dash/ampersand in the column name when I read the text file?</p>