There is no support for 'thousands separators' in R's input/conversion
routines, mainly because C has no support either (not even for output in
the C standard). We could of course add our own layer, but as far as I am
aware this is the first time this has come up.
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Andrew J
See:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-April/130912.html
On 6/14/07, Andrew J Tyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a comma delimited text file in which many columns of numbers are
> also quoted and have commas as well as decimals. I was surprised to find
> read.csv() didn't import th
I have a comma delimited text file in which many columns of numbers are
also quoted and have commas as well as decimals. I was surprised to find
read.csv() didn't import this seamlessly, even after messing around with
the colClasses argument. I did find a solution to convert the character
strin
