How embarrassing -- works like a charm. On 6/26/07, Greg Snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The what argument looks at what the elements are, not the word they say. > Try this: > > > tmp <- scan("C:/temp.csv", > > what=list("",0), > > sep=",") > > Hope this helps, > > -- > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. > Statistical Data Center > Intermountain Healthcare > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (801) 408-8111 > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benjamin Tyner > > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:59 AM > > To: r-devel@r-project.org > > Subject: [Rd] possible bug in 'scan' > > > > R-devel, > > > > When I run the following code on the attached file, > > > > tmp <- scan("C:/temp.csv", > > what=list("character","numeric"), > > sep=",") > > > > Then tmp[[2]] is a character vector. My impression from the > > help file is that it should be a numeric as specified by 'what' > > > > > sessionInfo() > > R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23) > > i386-pc-mingw32 > > > > locale: > > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United > > States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United > > States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > > > attached base packages: > > [1] "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" > > "methods" "base" > > > > other attached packages: > > lattice gdata > > "0.15-5" "2.3.1" > > > > My apologies if this is due to my misunderstanding. > > Ben > > > >
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