On 25/09/2017 08:00, Dario Strbenac wrote:
Good day,
The data function can import a variety of file formats, one of them being C.S.V.
That isn't its documented purpose. It was the original way for packages
to provide datasets as needed (before lazy data was added).
Problematically, all of the table columns are collapsed into a single
data frame column. This occurs because "files ending .csv or .CSV are
read using read.table(..., header = TRUE, sep = ";", as.is=FALSE)". I
suggest that the semi-colon used as the column separator be changed to a
comma.
We suggest you read the documentation ... the (non-English-locales)
version with a semicolon separator is one of four documented formats,
and the English-language one is not. Even if it were desirable it would
not be possible to make a backwards-incompatible change after almost 20
years.
It really isn't clear why anyone would want to use anything other than
the second option (.rda) for data() unless other manipulations are
needed (e.g. to attach a package). But that option was not part of the
original implementation.
--
Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
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