That is silly, but I have learned something. Thanks. Though honestly, I've never seen the advantage of read.csv() over the more versatile read.table().
Sarah On Tuesday, July 10, 2012, peter dalgaard wrote: > > On Jul 10, 2012, at 21:44 , Sarah Goslee wrote: > > > > But note that if sep=";" then you don't have a csv file and should > > properly use read.table() instead. > > That's not actually true. In a substantial part of the world, csv files > are semicolon separated. That's what read.csv2() is for. (Yes, it is silly, > please don't get me started...) > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk <javascript:;> Priv: pda...@gmail.com <javascript:;> > > > > > > > > > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.stringpage.com http://www.sarahgoslee.com http://www.functionaldiversity.org [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
