On 8 Sep 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > etc? Or perhaps it is better with a catchall "Date-fmt", i.e., e.g.,
> > > "Date-%Y%m%d"? That'd be fairly easy to code:
> > >
> > > else if (length(grep("^Date-",colClasses[i])))
> > > as.Dat
Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > etc? Or perhaps it is better with a catchall "Date-fmt", i.e., e.g.,
> > "Date-%Y%m%d"? That'd be fairly easy to code:
> >
> > else if (length(grep("^Date-",colClasses[i])))
> > as.Date(data[[i]], sub("^Date-(.*)$","\\1", colClasses[i])
On 8 Sep 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > To make it actually work, we should probably fixup the "what" that is
> > being passed to scan a bit further upstreams.
> >
> >
> > > Might be a good idea to teach colClasses about "factor".
> >
> > That's
Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> To make it actually work, we should probably fixup the "what" that is
> being passed to scan a bit further upstreams.
>
>
> > Might be a good idea to teach colClasses about "factor".
>
> That's what I thought. Other ideas would be to predefine some s
Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >From ?read.table (this is about read.table, despite the subject line, I
> believe?)
>
> colClasses: character. A vector of classes to be assumed for the columns.
>
> "NULL" is not a class in my book (and certainly not one a column can
> have).
>From ?read.table (this is about read.table, despite the subject line, I
believe?)
colClasses: character. A vector of classes to be assumed for the columns.
"NULL" is not a class in my book (and certainly not one a column can
have). So no wonder it does not work, and it is not a bug not to wor
