On Apr 16, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
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.
The as.is argument should prevent automatic conversions. Set it to TRUE.
--
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT
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