> On 25 Sep 2017, at 14:27 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
> On 25/09/2017 08:00, Dario Strbenac wrote:
>> Good day,
>> The data function can import a variety of file formats, one of them being
>> C.S.V.
>
> That isn't its documented purpose. It was the original way for packages to
> provide d
On 25/09/2017 08:00, Dario Strbenac wrote:
Good day,
The data function can import a variety of file formats, one of them being C.S.V.
That isn't its documented purpose. It was the original way for packages
to provide datasets as needed (before lazy data was added).
Problematically, all of
Good day,
The data function can import a variety of file formats, one of them being
C.S.V. Problematically, all of the table columns are collapsed into a single
data frame column. This occurs because "files ending .csv or .CSV are read
using read.table(..., header = TRUE, sep = ";", as.is=FALSE