Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sorry, unclear. We already change quote= for read.delim and read.csv, > > and I was suggesting also to modify the default for comment.char for > > those functions, but definitely not for read.table. > > > > Arguably, those functions are there to handle file formats generated > > by other programs, and it is unlikely that such programs will generate > > comment lines starting with #, whereas we have learned that Excel will > > occasionally generate fields like #NULL#, which mess up the parsing. > > Ah, that does seem a sensible defensive move.
Committed for r-devel (only). Make check seems happy, but we may need to watch out for the package checking. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
