Yes I know I can manually do it, but I am using it for scripts in which users upload files. Hence, I don't know what's going to come; I don't know on before hand whether data will contain Dates, and in which columns they appear. This is why I was surprised that read.table has some (undocumented) behavior of converting columns that look like Dates to a different format.
I would like to control this default behavior of the read.table function, rather than set a type for a specific column of a specific file. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/read-table-behavior-for-Dates-tp2013442p2013489.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.