Re: [Rd] read.table reads "i" as NA_complex_

Thank you both! Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 1:44 PM, peter dalgaard wrote: > This is fixed/changed in r-devel: > > > str(type.convert("i")) > Factor w/ 1 level "i": 1 > > It was reported on July 18 as PR#16473, if you care. > > (Funny

Re: [Rd] read.table reads "i" as NA_complex_

On 07/10/2015 21:22, William Dunlap wrote: I just noticed that read.table() and type.convert() interpret the string "i" as a missing value of type complex. > str(read.table(text=c("i\ni\ni\ni\n"))) 'data.frame': 4 obs. of 1 variable: $ V1: cplx NA NA NA ... >

[Rd] read.table reads "i" as NA_complex_

I just noticed that read.table() and type.convert() interpret the string "i" as a missing value of type complex. > str(read.table(text=c("i\ni\ni\ni\n"))) 'data.frame': 4 obs. of 1 variable: $ V1: cplx NA NA NA ... > str(type.convert("i")) cplx NA If there are other strings

Re: [Rd] read.table reads "i" as NA_complex_

This is fixed/changed in r-devel: > str(type.convert("i")) Factor w/ 1 level "i": 1 It was reported on July 18 as PR#16473, if you care. (Funny how an obscure issue goes unnoticed for a decade, then pops up twice independently within a few months. A property of the Poisson process, I