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Not a bug, since this was platform-specific and undocumented before.

However, the behaviour has been changed in R-patched, docunented in the 
NEWS file, discussed on R-help ....

Please do the homework the R FAQ and posting guide asks of you.

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> L.S.,
>
> after having updated to 2.7.0, read.table seems
> to have bug. I read in a file (see a view lines
> pasted below) with:
>
> phon =
> read.table("D:/Data/underspec/FULish/exp1/analysis/phoned111_200.txt",
> header = T);
>
> the second variable, being "+" or "-" is converted into zeros (0)
> and treated as a numerical variable.
>
> Kind regards,
> Holger
>
>
> pp    type    item    target  comp    distr
>   1   -       sik.bmp  270.52  274.73  495.50
>   1   +       meid.bmp          66.33  484.62  540.24
>   1   +       flipper.bmp      247.79  453.23  413.18
>   1   -       dood.bmp         275.22  359.80  451.38
>   1   -       nat.bmp  176.65  531.24  419.50
>   1   +       fauna.bmp        200.57  501.46  456.97
>   1   -       daad.bmp         174.50  531.96  465.20
>   1   -       sok.bmp   46.90  418.95  597.41
>   1   +       flik.bmp         230.59  546.53  397.22
>   1   -       noorden.bmp      202.76  354.77  545.87
>   1   -       sabel.bmp         63.98  633.96  444.06
> ...
>
>
> -- 
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> Holger Mitterer, Ph.D.
> Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik
> Postbus 310
> 6500 AH Nijmegen
> The Netherlands
> Phone: (+31) (0)24 - 3521375
> Fax: (+31) (0)24 - 3521213
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
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>

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Brian D. Ripley,                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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