read.table() suggestions
I also have an aversion to factors sneaking in where they're not wanted, but read.table is OK because of its as.is argument. What I would like to see is that same argument made available in other functions that create data frames, such as as.data.frame() and aggregate(). Pierre
David Brahm wrote:
Hi, I understand work is being done to improve read.table(), especially by Prof. Brian D. Ripley. I offer below a version that I wrote, in the hope some aspects of it may prove useful or at least inspire discussion. Be aware that my version differs in a couple fundamental ways that reflect my aversion to dataframes and factors. So it returns a list of vectors which are all character, numeric, integer, or logical. Also, I have no row.names column, and so no issues about what to put in that column's header.
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