importing date vector with read.table

Hi,

I understand this should be an easy task but I am still struggling a bit to
read a .txt file with a date vector. My code is as below:

data<-read.table(file.choose(),header=TRUE,sep="\t",dec=",",colClasses=c("Date","numeric","numeric","numeric"))

But I am getting an error:

Error in charToDate(x) :
 character string is not in a standard unambiguous format

because my date vector is in a format below:

format="%d.%m.%Y"

But how can i define the date format for date vector in read.table
function....?
It is easiest to simply read the column as character, and convert 
later by as.Date(x, format="%d.%m.%Y")

You might want to consider using read.delim2 to get all the usual 
defaults for a tab-delimited file in a locale using comma as decimal 
separator.
Br,
Jack

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importing date vector with read.table

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