The quote argument in read_tsv might not work correctly

[jpquast]

I am trying to read a text file into R, that sometimes has quoted names in a rows and it only contains one column. This can look like the following:

first row
second "row"
"third" row
"fourth row"

If I try reading this file using the read_tsv() function (because rows never contain tabs, but might contain commas), it reads it in the following way:

read_tsv("my_file.tsv", 
col_names = FALSE, 
show_col_types = FALSE, 
progress = FALSE, 
quote = "")

# A tibble: 4 x 1
  X1              
  <chr>           
1 "first row"     
2 "second \"row\""
3 "third row"     
4 "fourth row"  

What I would expect from the argument quote = "" is however, that it would keep and escape all the quotes.
If I use the function read_delim() this is done correctly:

read_delim("my_file.tsv", 
delim = "\t", 
col_names = FALSE, 
show_col_types = FALSE, 
progress = FALSE, 
quote = "")

  X1               
  <chr>            
1 "first row"      
2 "second \"row\"" 
3 "\"third\" row"  
4 "\"fourth row\" "

It seems to me that the quote argument does not do anything when used in the read_tsv() function as compared to the read_delim() function. Maybe I made a mistake here and this is expected, but to me this does not seem as it is intended.
Help would be greatly appreciated!

[jimhester]

Thank you for opening the issue with a reproducible example!

This was a bug in read_tsv() with readr 2.0.0, it was not correctly passing the quote argument down.