Ben,
you confused read.csv and read.csv2. Separator in read.csv is ",", while
it is ";" in read.csv2. This is due to use of different decimal symbols
in some european languages - mine is one of them and I really hate
this. So the situation is:
decimal separator
english . ,
some european lang. , ;
There is then of course also a need to handle decimal separator and this
is done in read.csv2.
> just out of curiosity:
>
> why is the default behavior in data() for reading in .csv files
> to use sep=";" (semicolon rather than comma)? is this a historical
> artifact of some sort, or is there other logic to it? It caught
> me by surprise since I was expecting it to be sep="," as in
> read.csv() ...
>
> cheers
> Ben Bolker
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