From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Mon Nov 15 16:14:53 1999
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 15 Nov 1999 17:14:53 +0100
Subject: AW: [R] read.table problems
In-Reply-To: "Jens Oehlschl?gel-Akiyoshi"'s message of "Mon, 15 Nov 1999 16:43:04 +0100"
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"Jens Oehlschlgel-Akiyoshi" <jens.oehlschlaegel-akiyoshi@mdfactory.de> writes:

> Two short remarks
> 
> 1) I still do changes on my version of read.table() as I might need a proper
> csv.reader during the next days,
>    so perhaps you might want to wait
> 
> 2) Of course an alternative to patching read.table() is renaming my version
> to e.g. read.table.csv()
>    (but it is not a full csv.reader yet)

...and it isn't realistically going to be without surgery on the
internals of scan and count.fields. So, since there is a feature
freeze on for 0.90, we should hold back but try to get something like
this into the next version. There are a couple of other ideas that I'd
like to pursue at that point too.

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AW: [R] read.table problems
Peter Dalgaard BSA