What, like the colClasses argument? Darn that ellipsis and its consequent deferred documentation... but it _is_ mentioned in passing in ?read.fwf. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On September 13, 2016 10:54:44 PM PDT, Erich Neuwirth <erich.neuwi...@univie.ac.at> wrote: >Since many people commenting on the gene name problem in Excel >essentially tell us >This could never have happened with R >I want to show you a somewhat related issue: > > >ff1 <- tempfile() >cat(file = ff1, "12345", "1E002", sep = "\n") >xdf1 <- read.fwf(ff1, widths = 5, stringsAsFactors=FALSE) > >ff2 <- tempfile() >cat(file = ff2, "12345", "1E002","1A010", sep = "\n") >xdf2 <- read.fwf(ff2, widths = 5, stringsAsFactors=FALSE) > >in xdf1, the variable is numeric, in xdf2, it is a character variable. >Of course, in hindsight this makes sense. But the problem is similar to >the >Excel problem where something which could be a date is interpreted as a >date. > >A possible solution with my read.fwf problem would be to have a >parameter >forcing variables to be read as strings. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
