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From: Douglas Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copies to: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject:Re: [R] can I do this with read.table??
> I did read the help page, very carefully.
I did read the help page, very carefully.
The colClasses argument can be used if I want
to stop and look through every data set to see
which column I need to protect. But that's what I
said that I don't want to do.
As for 'as.is', I wish it did what you suggest, but
it doesn't. If one reads
Douglas Grove wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out if there's an automated way to get
> read.table to read in my data and *not* convert the character
> columns into anything, just leave them alone. What I'm referring
?Did you read the help page?
What about argument as.is=TRUE?
See also argu
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Douglas Grove wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out if there's an automated way to get
> read.table to read in my data and *not* convert the character
> columns into anything, just leave them alone. What I'm referring
> to as 'character columns' are columns in the data th
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out if there's an automated way to get
read.table to read in my data and *not* convert the character
columns into anything, just leave them alone. What I'm referring
to as 'character columns' are columns in the data that are quoted.
For columns of alphabetic strings (that
