Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com writes:
On 02/11/2011 03:37 PM, Laurent Gatto wrote:
On 11 February 2011 19:39, Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com wrote:
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Bump. Is there any opinion about this from R-core??
Will I be scolded if I submit this as a bug ... ??
What is
Bump.
It's been a week since I posted this to r-devel. Any
thoughts/discussion? Would R-core be irritated if I submitted a bug report?
cheers
Ben
Original Message
Subject: read.csv trap
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:16:36 -0500
From: Ben Bolker bbol...@gmail.com
To:
On 2/11/11 1:39 PM, Ben Bolker bbol...@gmail.com wrote:
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Original Message
Subject: read.csv trap
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:16:36 -0500
From: Ben Bolker bbol...@gmail.com
To: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch, David Earn
e...@math.mcmaster.ca
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On 11 February 2011 19:39, Ben Bolker bbol...@gmail.com wrote:
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What is dangerous/confusing is that R silently **wraps** longer lines if
fill=TRUE (which is the default for read.csv). I encountered this when
working with a colleague on a long, messy CSV file that had some phantom
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On 02/11/2011 03:37 PM, Laurent Gatto wrote:
On 11 February 2011 19:39, Ben Bolker bbol...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
What is dangerous/confusing is that R silently **wraps** longer lines if
fill=TRUE (which is the default for read.csv). I
This is not specifically a bug, but an (implicitly/obscurely)
documented behavior of read.csv (or read.table with fill=TRUE) that can
be quite dangerous/confusing for users. I would love to hear some
discussion from other users and/or R-core about this ... As always, I
apologize if I have
