Please make Pre-3.1 read.csv (type.convert) behavior available

Hi,

We at 0xdata use Java and R together, and the new behavior for read.csv has
made R unable to read the output of Java?s Double.toString().

It may be less convenient, but it's certainly not "unable".  Use colClasses.

This, needless to say, is disruptive for us.  (Actually, it was downright shocking.)

It wouldn't have been a shock if you had tested pre-release versions. 
Commercial users of R should be contributing to its development, and 
that's a really easy way to do so.

Duncan Murdoch

+1 for restoring old behavior.