Hi Ben, On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:58:35AM -0400, Benjamin Tyner wrote: > 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'
?scan says [...] what: the type of 'what' gives the type of data to be read. [...] so for example what=list(character(), numeric()) would presumably have worked, but not your code, as both of your list elements are of type character. Dan > > >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 > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel