Message-ID: <20020807134555.GA20463@giraffa.cbs.dtu.dk>
Date: 2002-08-07T13:45:55Z
From: Laurent Gautier
Subject: Reading characters using read.table()
In-Reply-To: <3D50F3CA.9030201@biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr>
Did you try the function 'scan' ?
Hopin' it helps,
Laurent
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 12:17:46PM +0200, Florent BATY wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to read a vector containing names of different variables from a
> text file (a unique column). Among them one is called "T". When I use
> the function read.table with default arguments and when I call the
> element of the data frame corresponding to name of this variable it
> returns me the logical value "TRUE" whereas I was expected it to return
> the character "T".
> Is it possible to specify the type data expected in a data frame when
> using the read.table function in order to make it unable to interpret
> "T" as "True" ?? Or is there any other functions enabling to import text
> data from a text file ??
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Florent
>
>
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