On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, David Rowntree wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to read a series of stock tickers into R, and I'm running > into trouble with Ford (F) and the old AT&T (T). Read.table seems to > interpret these as boolean values instead of strings, even when I set > colColumns to a vector of character(0)'s. Is there a way to convince it > to read them as strings?
Set 'colClasses' to a vector of "character", just as the help file for read.table says. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
