Those are the available options, not the defaults. If you follow the chain to ?type.convert as the help for read.table suggests, you will learn that "allow.loss" is the default value. The help for type.convert also explains what each option means.
Sarah On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Ramnik Bansal <ramnik.ban...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The help file for function read.table mentions the default value for the > argument numerals as > c("allow.loss", "warn.loss", "no.loss") > > How are the three values used as default values ? > > Thanks > Ramnik > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.