Summary of Forcing variables types when using read.table
"David Kane <David Kane" <a296180 at mica.fmr.com> writes:
Thanks to Martyn Plummer and Vele Samak for taking the time to answer my problem. scan certainly will do the trick. However, having taken a look at the code for read.table, it seems to me that I might be able to add in a "what" argument and then just pass it down to the call to scan. But that won't be today's project . . .
Wouldn't work. The scan inside read.table reads *everything* as character and type.convert converts the type afterwards. However, you could bypass the type.convert call...
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