From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri Apr 11 16:14:33 2003
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Fri Apr 11 16:14:43 2003
Subject: [Rd] bug in read.table (PR#2764)
In-Reply-To: <200304111402.h3BE2TpD011855@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304111510120.21064-100000@gannet.stats>

Without the file, how can we do anything about this?  My guess is that
this is a MacOS file, in which case the problem is PR#2469 which is long
solved.  Please try R-patched or a beta of R-1.7.0.

>From the NEWS file in R-patched

BUG FIXES

    o   The fix to PR#2396 broke read.table() on files with CR line
        endings. (PR#2469) Separate problem with this on Carbon Mac
        build fixed as well.

The other workaround is to use files in the native file format ....


BTW, `_' is deprecated, so please don't use it in postings, especially in 
the unreadable way shown here.

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 Michael.Man@pfizer.com wrote:

> Hi, there might be a bug in read.delim (also read.table) in R.1.6.2.  I
> included the correct input done in R1.6.1 first, then the wrong input in
> R1.6.2.  The discrepancies are highlighted in red.
> 
> Michael Man  
> 
> 
> ####### correct input in R1.6.1 ##########################
> > version
>          _              
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386           
> os       mingw32        
> system   i386, mingw32  
> status                  
> major    1              
> minor    6.1            
> year     2002           
> month    11             
> day      01             
> language R  
> 
> Browse[1]> jk2_read.delim(hd.file,sep="\t")
> Browse[1]> jk2[4:6,]
>   Wells    Drug Time Dose Animal.number Replicate
> 4    A4 Control                       2         a
> 5    A5 Control                       2         b
> 6    A6 Control                       2         c
> 
> 
> ##### bug below ######################
> > version
>          _              
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386           
> os       mingw32        
> system   i386, mingw32  
> status                  
> major    1              
> minor    6.2            
> year     2003           
> month    01             
> day      10             
> language R             
> 
> Browse[1]> jk2_read.delim(hd.file,sep="\t")
> Browse[1]> jk2[4:6,1:6]
>    AWells    Drug Time Dose Animal.number Replicate 
> 4      A4 Control                       2         a   
> 5       5 Control                       2         b   
> 6      A6 Control                       2         c 
> 
> 
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[Rd] bug in read.table (PR#2764)
Prof Brian Ripley