From murdoch.duncan at gmail.com  Sat Apr 26 13:28:40 2014
From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 07:28:40 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Please make Pre-3.1 read.csv (type.convert) behavior
	available
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On 26/04/2014, 12:23 AM, Tom Kraljevic wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We at 0xdata use Java and R together, and the new behavior for read.csv has
> made R unable to read the output of Java?s Double.toString().

It may be less convenient, but it's certainly not "unable".  Use colClasses.


>
> This, needless to say, is disruptive for us.  (Actually, it was downright shocking.)

It wouldn't have been a shock if you had tested pre-release versions. 
Commercial users of R should be contributing to its development, and 
that's a really easy way to do so.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> +1 for restoring old behavior.



[Rd] Please make Pre-3.1 read.csv (type.convert) behavior available
Duncan Murdoch