How to get fwrite() not to double quotes?

Question

I read a csv file containing html code in its fields using fread, do some maintenance on it and write the resulting datatable to a file using fwrite

Answer 1

Two possible solutions (using v1.10.0 of data.table):

1: Use the quote = FALSE parameter:

fwrite(dt, 'fwrite.csv', quote = FALSE)

When opening the file in a text editor, you will see this:

htmlcode
<colspan="7">
<colspan="8">

2: Replace the double brackets with single one (as also suggeted by @joel.wilson in the comments):

dt[, htmlcode := gsub('\"', '\'', htmlcode)]
fwrite(dt, 'fwrite.csv')

When opening the file in a text editor, you will see this:

htmlcode
<colspan='7'>
<colspan='8'>