On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Robert W. Baer, Ph.D. wrote:
> The problem would seem to be that the Windows GUI does not accept the TAB
> key as input. There is no whitespace between your values to be recongnized.
> Take your sequesnce and save it as a tab separated file in Excel or through
> Notepad, and you will be able to scan it in just fine using
> scan("savedfile.txt")
>
> I am not sure whether this behavior of the TAB key in the interface is
> intentional or not, but it is the same on my Windows 2000 machine, yet the
> TAB separated file reads in fine with scan().
It does seem to be intentional: all ctrl characters (those <= 0x1f) are
reserved for controlling the console. There is no implementation of tabs
in RGui, so TAB = ^I is currently ignored (along with ^G ^Q ^R ^S).
Note that pasting tabs into the Unix R console does not work either (tab
is used for completion in readline), and generally you should not expect
to be able to paste any control characters into a console (even inside
quotes).
--
Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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