Thanks for the reply. Apologies for checking only R patched rather than R-devel.
I guess that this means that someone must have a use for allowEscapes=TRUE when read reading a file in table format into a data frame. It is hard to imagine. Gordon At 04:59 PM 27/07/2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >This seems of historical interest only. > >allowEscapes is currently (in R-devel, where development happens) an >argument to read.table. > >We do ask people to check the current version! ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
